He handed to Britannicus a myrrhine goblet filled with some mulled Falernian, which he tasted first.
Mela, with a touch of envy, ‘your humble couches are inlaid with tortoise-shell; and your table shines with crystal and myrrhine vases embossed with gems.
Among the other ornaments of the table were a handled vase of white and purple, for which Nero had paid a million sesterces, and the myrrhine goblet which alone Augustus had reserved for himself from the treasures of Cleopatra.
He broke his most precious myrrhine vase, to prevent its being added to Nero's treasures.
But there was hardly any limit to the luxury and ostentatious splendour with which the great and opulent made their progresses, attended or preceded by troops of footmen and runners, and carrying with them costly plate and myrrhine vases.
And in a voice of command he pronounced a formula of exorcism that banished from Arria's cheeks the purple tints with which the black wine from the myrrhine vase had suffused them.
Arria did not eat, but she frequently raised to her lips an opal-tinted myrrhine vase filled with a wine darkly purple like thickened blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "myrrhine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
