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Tyrus or -ŏs , i, f., = Τύρος (Heb. ).
I. Lit., Tyre, a famous mariiime and commercial city of the Phœnicians, especially celebrated for its purple, now the ruins of Soor, Mel. 1, 12, 2; Plin. 5, 19, 17, § 76; Curt. 4, 2 sq.; Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145; Tib. 1, 7, 20; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 7; Verg. A. 1, 346; Cv. M. 3, 539; 15, 288.—Hence, Tyrĭus , a, um, adj.
2. Poet., for Theban (because Thebes was founded by the Phœnician, Cadmus): “montes,in the neighborhood of Thebes, Stat. Th. 1, 10; 12, 693: “agri,id. ib. 9, 406: “ductor,” i. e. Eteocles, id. ib. 11, 205: “exsul,” i. e. Polynices, id. ib. 3, 406: “plectrum,” i. e. of Amphion, id. S. 3, 1, 16; cf. “chelys,id. Th. 8, 232.—
3. Carthaginian: “arces,Verg. A. 1, 20: “virgines,id. ib. 1, 336: “urbs,id. ib. 1, 388: “doli,Sil. 7, 268: “patres,id. 2, 24: “ductor,” i. e. Hannibal, id. 10, 171; cf. “miles,the army of Hannibal, id. 8, 13.—
4. Purple, of a purple color: “torus,Tib. 1, 2, 75: “sinus,id. 1, 9, 70: “vestes,id. 1, 7, 47: “palla,id. 4, 2, 11: “subtemen,id. 4, 1, 121: “amictus, Ov A. A. 2, 297: cocco tinctum Tyrio,Plin. 9, 41, 65, § 140.—Subst.: Ty-rĭum , i, n., a purple color: “Tyria atque conchylia et omnis alios colores,Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 3; 35, 6, 26, § 45.—Plur subst.: Tyrĭi , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Tyre, the Tyrians, Mel. 3, 6, 1; Cic. Phil. 11, 13, 35; id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 2; Luc. 5, 108 al.Poet., transf. (cf. supra), for Thebans, Stat. Th. 1, 10; 2, 73; 9, 489.—For Carthaginians, Verg. A. 1, 574; 4, 111; Sil. 1, 82 al.
II. Transf., poet., purple, Mart. 2, 29, 3; 6, 11, 7.
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