Cedrus, cedi. sœ. g. A tree hauing leaues like iuniper, berries like mirtle, yealow, soote of sauour and pleasaunt to eate: it beareth all tymes of the yeare new fruite and olde: the lease neuer falleth.Ardua cedrus Ouid. Enodes cedri. Claud. Odorata cedrus.Virg.Cedro digna dicuntur, quæ promerentur immonalitatem. Persius. Carmina credo linenda. Horat. Liber slauns cedro Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cēdrus, i, f., = ke/dros, the cedar, juniper-tree: Juniperus oxycedrus, Linn., which has a very fragrant wood, and furnishes an oil that protects from decay, Plin. 13, 5, 11, 52; 16, 40, 76, 203; Col. 9, 4, 3; Vitr. 2, 9, 13.—Of cedar-wood, Verg. G. 3, 414; id. A. 7, 13; 7, 178; Curt. 5, 7, 5; 8, 10, 8; Suet. Calig. 37.—Hence, II.Meton., cedar-oil (with which the backs of books were usually anointed to preserve them from moths and decay): liber flavus cedro, Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 13: perunctus cedro, Mart. 3, 2, 7; cf. Becker, Gall. 2, p. 219.— Hence, poet.: carmina linenda cedro, i. e.
worthy of immortality
, Hor. A. P. 332: cedro digna locutus, Pers. 1, 42.