mollusk, murex/purple-fish; purple, purple dye/garments (pl.)
Latin word, found 21 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.59: … erdives et nobilis, Lamia nomine, per triennium isti plena domo telarum stragulam vestem confecit, nihil nisi conchylio tinctum Attalus, homo pecuniosus, Neti, Lyso Lilybaei, Critolaus Aetnae, Syracusis Aeschrio, Cleomenes, Theom …
Catullus, Carmina long_poems.64.49: tincta tegit roseo conchyli purpura fuco.
Horace, Epodi 2.49: non me Lucrina iuverint conchylia
All forms of conchylium