I. In an extended sense, the country Arabia, divided by the ancients into Petrœa (from its principal city, Petra), Deserta, and Felix, Plin. 5, 11, 12, § 65; Mel. 1, 10; Vulg. 3 Reg. 10, 15; ib. Gal. 4, 25 al.—
II. In a more restricted sense, a town in Arabia Felix, Mel. 3, 8, 7. —Hence, Ā^răbĭcus , a, um, adj., Arabic, Arabian: “odor (i. e. tus),” Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 2: “sinus,” Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168; Mel. 3, 8, 1: “resina,” Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 122: “adamas,” id. 37, 4, 15, § 56: “alites,” id. 37, 10, 54, § 146: “balanus,” id. 12, 21, 46, § 102: “lapicidinae, i. e. of alabaster,” id. 36, 12, 17, § 78: “spina,” the acacia, id. 24, 12, 65, § 107: “vectis,” Curt. 7, 2. 17. —Absol.: Ā^răbĭca , ae, f. (sc. gemma), a precious stone, similar to ivory, perh. a kind of chalcedony or onyx, Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 145; Isid. Orig. 16, 14.—Ā^răbĭcē , adv.: facite olant aedes Arabice, make the apartments redolent with the perfumes of Araby (frankincense, which was brought from Arabia), Plaut. ap. Diom. p. 378 P. (Arabice olet, id est ex odoribus Arabicis, Fest. p. 23): Arabice sacri vocantur, in Arabic, Sol. c. 33.
