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|lshtext=<b>Săba</b>: ae, f., = Σάβα.<br /><b>I</b> The largest [[town]] in [[Arabia]] [[Felix]], [[especially]] [[celebrated]] for its [[myrrh]], [[frankincense]], etc.: turifera, Plin. 12, 14, 30, § 52.—Hence,<br /><b>II</b> 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.
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