Seplasia

Latin Proper noun Sēplāsia<1.loc> la historic a street in Capua where unguents were sold la Cicero Pro Sestio 8 19 vestitus aspere nostra hac purpura plebeia ac paene fusca, capillo ita horrido ut Capua, in qua ipsa tum imaginis ornandae causa duumviratum gerebat, Seplasiam sublaturus videretur. His garments were rough, made of this purple worn by the common people you see around us, nearly brown; his hair so rough that at Capua, in which he, for the sake of becoming entitled to have an image of himself, was exercising the authority of a decemvir, it seemed as if he would require the whole Seplasia to make it decent. la Plin. Naturalis Historia 16 18 40 haec plurimam fundit interveniente candida gemma, tam simili turis, ut mixta visu discerni non queat; unde fraus Seplasiae. It gives out considerable quantities of resin, which is intermingled with white granulations like pearls, and so similar in appearance to frankincense, that when mixed, it is impossible to distinguish them; hence the adulterations we find practised in the Seplasia. Declension Sēplāsia<1.loc> Derived terms la Sēplasium la sēplasiārus la sēplasiārum References