myrice
Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
Latin > English
myrice myrices N F :: tamarisk; (evergreen bush/shrub/tree)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
myrīcē: ēs, or myrīca, ae, f., = μυρίκη,
I the tamarisk, a kind of shrub, Plin. 13, 21, 37, § 116; 24, 9, 41, § 67.—Prov., to signify something impossible: pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricae, Verg. E. 8, 54.
Latin > German (Georges)
myrīcē, ēs, f. u. myrīca, ae, f. (μυρίκη), die französische od. welsche Tamariske, ein am Wasser wachsendes strauchartiges Gewächs, mit bitterer Rinde, schwachen Zweigen u. kleinen Blättern (Tamarix gallica. L.), Plin. nat. hist. 1. ind. libr. 24. c. 41. Plin. 13, 116 u. 24, 67. Vulg. Ierem. 17, 6 u. 48, 6: Plur., Verg. ecl. 4, 2. Ov. art. am. 3, 691; met. 10, 97. – pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricae, zur Bezeichnung des Widernatürlichen, Verg. ecl. 8, 54: ebenso si quis idem sperat, iacturas poma myricas speret, Ov. art. am. 1, 747.
