a gnawing worm; a moth
Latin word, found 18 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.373: agrestes tineae (res observata colonis)
Horace, Sermones 2.3.119: blattarum ac tinearum epulae, putrescat in arca:
Horace, Epistulae 1.20.12: coeperis, aut tineas pasees taciturnus inertis
All forms of tinea