phoenix
phoenix, the phoenix, a fabulous bird
- the phoenix, a fabulous bird in Arabia. It was said to live 500 years, and from its ashes a young phoenix arose, Sen. Ep. 42, 1; Plin. 10, 2, 2, § 3; Tac. A. 6, 28; Aur. Vict. Caes. 4; Ov. Am. 2, 6, 54; id. M. 15, 393; Stat. S. 2, 4, 36; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 417.
penix, genus aquilae
nova Roma viso fenice melioribus auspiciis condita est
~ix, ~icis, est avis, et frater Cathmi, et regio ultra mare que est Syria Phenicis, et palma dicitur Grece fenix
hic ~ix, media producta,a phenes
finix avis semetipsum revocat de favillis †congregatio [l. congregatis ]
ipsa quidem sed non eadem que te ipsa nec ipsa? [gl.: ipsa est avis foenix ]
quid illa phoenicis tam obstupenda proprio ex cinere reparatio?
confirmatur ‥ quod eadem species fenicis ‥ redit post sui desicionem
optima femina, que rarior est fenice
de hoc etenim hominum genere dicere consueverat rex Henricus secundus quia, si tantum vir unus de Bascrevillanis, sicut avis unica fenix, in mundo foret et non plures, totam mundi massam et machinam tantillo fermento contaminandam fore et corumpendam
quare sit unus fenix tantum et quare ex eo alius non generetur nisi eo mortuo?
apud Arabes ubi nascitur ~ix [ed. 1472: fenix ] singularis nuncupatur
ut fenix avis unica jus foret filii mei, si obtinere poterit quod intendit
feminei sexus Susanna fit unica fenix
o lampas celicum, o festra celica / monstrum sanctissimum et fenix unica
ave, virgo, mater Christi, / que pudore meruisti / dici fenix virginum
pre cunctis aliis, quas ornat gracia forme, / felix et fenix ista [sc. femina ] fit absque pare
finicus, i. dactilus
finixi, i. palma cum dactilo
feminice, i. palma
ad similitudinem avis phoenicis [ed. 1472: fenicis ], que multis vivit annis, palma a Grecis φοίνιξ [sic; ed 1472: fenix ] est vocata
finichon †pachilus [v. l. †parachilus, l. dactylus ], palma
palma, Grece ~ix, A.a date tre
~ix, Romanis lolium murinum, sive hordeum murinum dicitur. quibusdam avena sterilis vocatur. nascitur in arvis tegulisque recens illitis, vocatur hec herba quibusdamwaybent , propterea quod juxta semitas crescat
~ix Dioscoridissemeth to be the herbe which is called in Cambrigshire way bent
- the phoenix, a fabulous bird, O.
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…, quas Zeno exaequaret, nihil interesset. Postea tuus ille Poenulus scis enim Citieos, clientes tuos, e Phoenica profectos, homo igitur acutus, causam non optinens repugnante natura verba versare coepit et primum rebus iis, quas…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
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…amissarum navium aut necessariarum rerum inopia ex portu insulaque expelli potuit. Isdem fere temporibus Cassius cum classe Syrorum et Phoenicum et Cilicum in Siciliam venit, et cum esset Caesaris classis divisa in duas partes, dimidiae parti praeesset P…
Julius Caesar, Civil War
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…Septem soliti vocitare Triones ; paribusque stellis similiter distinctis eundem caeli verticem lustrat parva Cynosura. hac fidunt duce nocturna Phoenices in alto. sed prior illa magis stellis distincta refulget et late prima confestim a nocte videtur. haec vero…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Natura Deorum
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…vacuum a bello atque ab hoste otiosum fuerat, magnam ex Asia Cycladibusque insulis Corcyra Athenis Ponto Bithynia Syria Cilicia Phoenice Aegypto classem coegerat, magnam omnibus locis aedificandam curaverat, magnam imperatam Asiae Syriae regibusque omnibus et dynastis et tetrarchis…
Julius Caesar, Civil War
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…taurus Phaelericus portus Phidias statuarius Philippus, rex Macedoniae, Alexandri Magni pater Philoctetes sqq. Philocteteus clamor Philodemus Epicureus Phoenice s. Phoenica physica πρόδηα cognitio naturae explicatio naturae Pindarus poëta Piso Frugi v. Calpurnius PisoFrugi M. Piso…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
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…mirentur. Cum vero omnia absint, tamen se non respicient, non gentis suae famam perhorrescent fallacissimum genus esse Phoenicum omnia monumenta vetustatis atque omnes historiae nobis prodiderunt. ab his orti Poeni multis Carthaginiensium rebellionibus, multis violatis fractisque…
Cicero, pro Scauro
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…Phidias statuarius Philippus, rex Macedoniae, Alexandri Magni pater Philoctetes sqq. Philocteteus clamor Philodemus Epicureus Phoenice s. Phoenica physica πρόδηα cognitio naturae explicatio naturae Pindarus poëta Piso Frugi v. Calpurnius PisoFrugi M. Piso v. M…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
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…, etiam dilectus accedent. neque vero classes deerunt tanti Tyrii Cassium faciunt, tantum eius in Syria nomen atque Phoenice est. paratum habet imperatorem C. Cassium, patres conscripti, res publica contra Dolabellam nec paratum solum sed…
Cicero, Philippicae
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…non enim sum sapiens et meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram, qua fidunt duce nocturna Phoenices in alto, ut ait Aratus, eoque directius gubernant quod earn tenent quae cursu interiore brevi convertitur orbe sed…
M. Tullius Cicero, Lucullus
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…bene dicendi magistra ; neque disiuncti doctores, sed eidem erant vivendi praeceptores atque dicendi, ut ille apud Homerum Phoenix, qui se a Peleo patre Achilli iuveni comitem esse datum dicit ad bellum, ut efficeret oratorem verborum actoremque…
Cicero, de Oratore
(φοίνιξ). A fabulous bird, of which Herodotus gives the following account in that part of his work which treats of Egypt (ii. 73): “The phoenix is another sacred bird, which I have never seen except in effigy. He rarely appears in Egypt; once only in five hundred years, immediately after the death of his father, as the Heliopolitans affirm. If the painters describe him truly, his feathers represent a mixture of crimson and gold, and he resembles the eagle in outline and size. They affirm that he does the following thing, which to me is not credible. They say that he comes from Arabia, and, bringing the body of his father inclosed in myrrh, buries him in the temple of the Sun; and that he brings him in the following manner: First, he moulds as great a quantity of myrrh into the shape of an egg as he is well able to carry; and, after having tried the weight, he hollows out the egg, and puts his parent into it, and stops up with some more myrrh the hole through which he had introduced the body, so that the weight is the same as before: he then carries the whole mass to the temple of the Sun in Egypt. Such is the account they give of the phoenix.” Similar stories of marvellous birds are found in Persian literature (of the bird Simorg) and in Sanskrit literature (of the bird Semendar).