bituminum
bitumen, mineral pitch, bitumen
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Parsed as:
neuter genitive plural of bitumen
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…ferunt quid enim dare maius habebant Protinus, ut secto piceae de cortice guttae, utve tenax gravida manat tellure bitumen, utve sub adventu spirantis lene favoni sole remollescit, quae frigore constitit, unda, sic lacrimis consumpta suis…
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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…, insula sine nomine, flumen granis modicarum navium per susianen fluit, dextra eius accolunt dexi montani, qui bitumen perficiunt, flumen zarotis, ostio difficili nisi peritis, insulae duae parvae ; inde vadosa navigatio, palustri similis…
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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…terra tantum restingui docuere experimenta. similis est natura naphthae. ita appellatur circa babylonem et in austacenis parthiae profluens bituminis liquidi modo. huic magna cognatio ignium, transiliuntque in eam protinus undecumque visam. ita ferunt a medea paelicem…
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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…viscosus inescat pastus et ad superas percurrere non sinit auras, praescius inde Pater liventia Tartara plumbo incendit liquido piceasque bitumine fossas infernalis aquae furvo subfodit Averno, et Phlegethonteo sub gurgite sanxit edaces perpetuis scelerum poenis inolescere vermes, norat…
Prudentius, Hamartigenia
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…et copiosos, ad unum concessit vocabulum et nunc omnis appellatur Assyria, ubi inter bacarum vulgariumque abundantiam frugum, bitumen nascitur prope lacum nomine Sosingiten, cuius alveo Tigris voratus, fluensque subterraneus, percursis spatiis longis emergit. hic…
Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum