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subject	book bibliographic info
laurel	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 60 Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 18, 69, 121, 129, 151, 153, 161, 162, 164, 166, 167, 172, 173, 175, 283 Edmondson (2008), Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, 165, 166, 232 Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 53, 67, 72, 81, 192, 212, 221 Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 363, 364 Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 42, 43, 50, 76, 83, 84, 85, 88, 121, 153, 154, 155, 156, 173, 174 Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 141, 143, 149, 150, 153 Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 86, 117, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 199, 227 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 59, 60 de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 423
laurel, crowns	Brodd and Reed (2011), Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult, 164
laurel, fulkerson	Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 99, 124
laurel, priest crowned with	Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013), Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians, 145
laurel, sacred to, apollo	Sider (2001), Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian, 130
laurel, sprig omens, omens	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 143
laurel, tree, tree	Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 111, 112, 203, 287, 396
laurel, trees	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 113, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143 Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 121, 122, 123 Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77, 205, 215
laurel, twigs apollo, of and number seven	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 113
laurel, twigs apollo, of delphic cult	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 114, 186, 211, 250
laurel, twigs of apollo	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 31, 213
laurel, twigs, winnowing basket of	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 31, 213
laurel, wood and leaves	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 351, 481
laurel, worn at donative, xiv,	Sider (2001), Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian, 131
laurel, worn at generals triumph, ף metaphor for christian victory,	Sider (2001), Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian, 69
laurels, tree portents	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 135, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 146, 147

List of validated texts:

3 validated results for "laurel"

1. Ovid, Fasti, 4.953-4.954 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • laurel

Found in books: Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 192, 212; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 149

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4.953 state Palatinae laurus, praetextaque quercu' ' None

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4.953 Decked with branches of oak: one place holds three eternal gods.' ' None

2. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.454, 1.459-1.460, 1.478, 1.546-1.547, 1.558-1.567 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • laurel

Found in books: Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 192; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 143, 149, 150, 153; Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 124, 127

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1.454 Delius hunc, nuper victa serpente superbus, ^1.460 stravimus innumeris tumidum Pythona sagittis. ^1.478 Multi illam petiere, illa aversata petentes ^1.546 qua nimium placui, tellus aut hisce vel istam, ^1.547 quae facit ut laedar, mutando perde figuram. ^1.547 Qua nimium placui, mutando perde figuram!” ^1.558 arbor eris certe” dixit “mea. Semper habebunt ^1.559 te coma, te citharae, te nostrae, laure, pharetrae: ^1.560 tu ducibus Latiis aderis, cum laeta triumphum ^1.561 vox canet et visent longas Capitolia pompas: ^1.562 postibus Augustis eadem fidissima custos ^1.563 ante fores stabis mediamque tuebere quercum, ^1.564 utque meum intonsis caput est iuvenale capillis, ^1.565 tu quoque perpetuos semper gere frondis honores.” ^1.566 Finierat Paean: factis modo laurea ramis' ' None

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1.454 emerged the shores of ocean; channels filled ^1.460 but as he viewed the vast and silent world ^1.478 decreed and only we are living!”, Thu ^1.546 alive and part of slime iimate ^1.547 are fashioned in one body. Heat combined ^1.558 created thus enormous Python.—Thou ^1.559 unheard of serpent spread so far athwart ^1.560 the side of a vast mountain, didst fill with fear ^1.561 the race of new created man. The God ^1.562 that bears the bow (a weapon used till then ^1.563 only to hunt the deer and agile goat) ^1.564 destroyed the monster with a myriad darts, ^1.565 and almost emptied all his quiver, till ^1.566 envenomed gore oozed forth from livid wounds.' ' None

3. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • laurel

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 129; Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 153, 154, 174

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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