I. A country of Asia, divided into Armenia Major (eastern, now Turcomania and Kurdistan) and Minor (western, now Anatolia), Plin. 6, 9, 9, § 25: “utraque,” Luc. 2, 638: “utraeque,” Flor. 3, 5, 21.—Absol. Armenia, for Armenia Minor, Cic. Div. 2, 37, 79; id. Phil. 2, 37, 94.— Hence,
II. Derivv.
A. Armĕnĭăcus , a, um, adj., = Ἀρμενιακός, Armenian: “bellum,” Plin. 7, 39, 40, § 129: “triumphus,” id. 30, 2, 6, § 16: “cotes,” id. 36, 22, 47, § 164.— “Hence, Armeniacus,” an epithet of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, on account of his conquest of Armenia, Capitol. M. Anton. Philos. 9; Inscr. Grut. 253, 2.—Armeniacum malum, or absol. Armĕnĭăcum , the fruit of the apricot-tree, the apricot, Col. 5, 10, 19 (id. 5, 10, 404, called Armenium).—Armĕ-nĭăca , ae, f., the apricot-tree, Col. 11, 2, 96; Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 41.—
B. Armĕnĭus , a, um, adj., Armenian: “lingua,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 100 Müll.: “reges,” Cic. Att. 2, 7: “tigres,” Verg. E. 5, 29: “pedites,” Nep. Dat. 8, 2: “triumphi,” Flor. 4, 2, 8.—
2. Subst.
b. Armĕnĭum , ii, n.
(α).
Sc. pigmentum, a fine blue color, obtained from an Armenian stone, ultramarine, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 4; Vitr. 7, 5 fin.; Plin. 35, 6, 12, § 30.—
(β).
Sc. pomum, the apricot, Col. 5, 10, 404.
