Tyrus

Tyrus or -ŏs, i, f., = Turos (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; id. 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.

1.

Of or belonging to Tyre, Tyrian:

purpura,

Cic. Fl. 29, 70:

murex,

Ov. A. A. 3, 170; id. M. 11, 166:

fucus,

id. ib. 6, 222:

colores,

id. ib. 9, 340; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 18:

vestes,

id. S. 2, 4, 84:

chlamys,

Ov. M. 5, 51:

merces,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 60:

puella,

i. e. Europa, Ov. F. 5, 605;

also called Tyria paelex,

id. M. 3, 258; cf.

taurus (that carried her),

Mart. 10, 51, 1:

Tyria maria in proverbium deductum est, quod Tyro oriundi Poeni adeo potentes maris fuerunt, ut omnibus mortalibus navigatio esset periculosa. Afranius in Epistula: hunc in servum autem maria Tyria conciet,

Fest. p. 355 Müll.—

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.