Arabia, In Hebrue Saba, is a conntrie in Afia, deuided into three regions, Petrea, Delerta, and Fœlix. Perrea (signifying stonie) marcheth on Aegypt, and Iudea. Plinie calleth it Nabathea. The chiefe citie thereof is Petra nowe called Arach: In holy scripture it is called Petra Deserti. By this countrey the children of Israel passed out of Aegypt. It is (as Strabo writeth) plaine, enuiruned with rockes of a great height, wherein bee many springs of freshe water. Without that circuit towarde Iudea, the more part of the countrey is desert without water. There is the great MoÛtaine Sina, called of Ptholome Melanes, where the olde lawe was giuen to Moses, and where the bodie of the holy virgin Katherine is buried. Also another mountaine called Casius, where the great Pompeius is buried. Arabia deserta, of Strabo called Sænetis, hath on the south, the mountaines of Arabia fœlix: on the north, Mesopotamia: on the mest, Petrea. The people of this countrey haue uo certaine habitation, but dwell in tents. Arabia fœlix, on the south, lyeth betweene the two seas Arabicum, and Persicum, which is so plentifull, that it bringeth forth corne and fruites twice in the yeare. They haue plentie of all fruite & cattell, except Horses, Mules, and Swine: Of all Foules, except geese, cockes, and hennes. Also there groweth all kinde of spices and sweete gummes. The townes are vuwalled, because the people doe line alway in peace.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ārăbĭa (on account of the long A in Prop. 3, 10, 16, erroneously written by many Arrabia; cf. Jahn ad Hor. C. 3, 4, 9), ae, f., = *)arabi/a. 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, Ārăbĭcus, 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.: Ārăbĭca, 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.—Ārăbĭcē, 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.
Ārăbĭus (incorrectly Arr-, v. Arabia), a, um, adj., = *)ara/bios, a secondary form of Arabus and Arabs, Arabian: advecti ad Arabiam terram, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 88: odor, id. Poen. 5, 4, 6 (Charis. p. 99 P. reads Arabus): bombyx, Prop. 2, 3, 15: limen,