Arabia Felix
Americannoun
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And the children, women, men, cities and landscapes of the former Arabia Felix are paying the price.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018
In the first century BCE, Augustus Caesar sent 10,000 troops to invade what the Romans called Arabia Felix to find the source of frankincense and to control its production.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2010
In times past, fertile Yemen, known as Arabia Felix, was the granary of Arabia, but it now must buy wheat and butter abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Sabæans, the most numerous tribe of Arabia, according to Agatharchides, who wrote in the second half of the second century B.C., inhabited the so-called Arabia Felix.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
To their bewildered gaze, each system was an Arabia Felix, and every axiom a graceful palm.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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