I. The largest town in Arabia Felix, especially celebrated for its myrrh, frankincense, etc.: “turifera,” Plin. 12, 14, 30, § 52.—Hence,
II. Să-baeus , a, um, adj., = Σαβαῖος, Sabœan: “tus,” Verg. A. 1, 416: “odor, Col. poët. 10, 262: nubes,” Stat. S. 4, 8, 1: “flores,” id. ib. 5, 1, 211: “myrrha,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 376; cf. “flos, i. e. of myrrh,” Val. Fl. 6, 709: “terra,” Ov. M. 10, 480: cumulus, a funeral pyre perfumed with myrrh, etc., Claud. Phoen. 43.—As substt.: Săbaea , ae, f. (sc. terra), the territory of Saba, i. e. Arabia Felix, Hor. C. 1, 29, 3.—Săbaei , ōrum, m., a numerous people in Arabia Felix (named after their capital city, Saba), the Sabœans: “Sabaei Arabum propter tura clarissimi,” Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 154; cf. Mel. 3, 8, 6; Verg. G. 1, 57; 2, 117; id. A. 8, 706; Flor. 4, 11, 7; Claud. Cons. Hon. 4, 305; Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 3, 23.
