myrice

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

myrīcē, ēs, or myrīca, ae, f., = μυρίκη,

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.

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