Looking for sentences and phrases with the word murrhine? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The rare cornucopia shown in Plate XVI is embellished with free-floating murrhine and entwined with a seventeenth-century-style crested serpent.
Martial reports that a murrhine cup improved the flavour of wine, perhaps because fluorspar has a loose crystalline structure and is best smeared with resin before carving.
Examples from Classical Literature
In the light of heaven he was also of a black colour, but he said that he was not of a black, but of a murrhine colour.
The next claim has been made on behalf of the murrhine vases of the ancients, which are described as cooked in Parthian fires.
