purple fish, shellfish which gave Tyrian dye; purple dye; purple cloth
Latin word, found 53 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Eclogues 4.44: murice, iam croceo mutabit vellera luto;
Ovid, Remedia amoris 708: Murice cum Tyrio; turpius illud erit:
Horace, Epodi 12.21: muricibus Tyriis iteratae vellera lanae
All forms of murex