Phoenica

1.

Phoenīcē, ēs ( Phoenīca, Cic. Fin. 4, 20, 56, v. Madv. ad loc.; Poenīcē, Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 22 al.), f., = Phoinikê, Phœnicia, a country of Syria, especially celebrated for the purple which came from there; its principal cities were Tyre and Sidon, Mel. 1, 12; Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66; 5, 19, 17, § 75; 36, 26, 65, § 190; Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66; id. Phil. 11, 13, 35; id. Fin. 4, 20, 56.—Called also Phoenīcĭa, ae, f., Mart. Cap. 6, §§ 678, 680; Serv. Verg. A. 1, 446; 3, 88.—

2.

A small island in the Ægean Sea, otherwise called Ios, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 69.—

3.

A town of Epirus, Liv. 29, 12.—

4.

Vid. phoenicea.— Hence,

A.

Phoenīces, um, m., the Phœnicians, celebrated as the earliest navigators and as founders of many colonies, especially of Carthage, Mel. 1, 12; Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 67; Cic. N. D. 2, 41, 106; Luc. 3, 220; Tac. A. 11, 14.—In sing.: Phoenix, a Phœnician, Cadmus, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 197.—

2.

Transf., the Carthaginians, Sil. 13, 730; in sing., a Carthaginian, id. 16, 25.—Adj., Phœnician:

elate,

Plin. 29, 3, 13, § 56.—

B.

phoenīcĕus ( poenī-, foenī-), a, um, adj., = phoinikeos, purple-red:

aut phoeniceum florem habet aut purpureum, aut lacteum,

Plin. 21, 23, 94, § 164; cf. Gell. 2, 26, 9:

poeniceas vestes,

Ov. M. 12, 104:

poeniceum corium,

i. e. made purple-red with blows, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 92.—

C.

Phoenīcĭus, a, um, adj., Phœnician:

mare,

Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 67.—

D.

Phoenissus, a, um, adj., Phœnician:

Dido,

Verg. A. 1, 670:

exsul,

i. e. Anna, Ov. F. 3, 595:

Tyros,

id. M. 15, 288.—As subst.: Phoenissa, ae, f.:

Dido,

Verg. A. 1, 714.— Plur.: Phoenissae, the Phœnician women, the name of a tragedy by Euripides; also of one by Seneca.—

2.

Transf.

a.

Theban, because Cadmus was a Phœnician:

cohors,

Stat. Theb. 9, 527.—

b.

Carthaginian:

classis,

Sil. 7, 409:

juventa,

id. 17, 632.—In neutr. plur.:

Phoenissa agmina,

Sil. 17, 174.— Subst.:

Phoenissa

, ae, f., Carthage, Sil. 6, 312.—

E.

Phoenīcĭas, ae, m., the south-south-east wind, Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 120.

2.

phoenīcē ( phoenīcĕa, ae), ēs, f., = phoinikea, a kind of barley, mouse-barley, Plin. 22, 25, 65, § 135.