I.the cedar, juniper-tree: “Juniperus oxycedrus, Linn., which has a very fragrant wood, and furnishes an oil that protects from decay,” Plin. 13, 5, 11, § 52; 16, 40, 76, § 203; Col. 9, 4, 3; Vitr. 2, 9, 13.—Of cedar-wood, Verg. G. 3, 414; id. A. 7, 13; 7, 178; Curt. 5, 7, 5; 8, 10, 8; Suet. Calig. 37.—Hence,
II. Meton., cedar-oil (with which the backs of books were usually anointed to preserve them from moths and decay): “liber flavus cedro,” Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 13: “perunctus cedro,” Mart. 3, 2, 7; cf. Becker, Gall. 2, p. 219.— Hence, poet.: “carmina linenda cedro,” i. e. worthy of immortality, Hor. A. P. 332: “cedro digna locutus,” Pers. 1, 42.
