violet; several spring flowers, pansy; violet color
Latin word, found 21 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Eclogues 10.39: et nigrae violae sunt et vaccinia nigra—
Ovid, Fasti 5.272: ad violam et cytisos et thyma cana voco.
Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2.17.17: Ante cryptoporticum xystus violis odoratus. Teporem solis infusi repercussu cryptoporticus auget, quae ut tenet solem sic aquilonem inhibet sum …
All forms of viola