Ămāzon, ŏnis, f., = Ἀμαζών, plur. Amazones [a Scythian word of dub. signif.; acc. to an etymological fancy, as if from ἀ-μαζός, without breast; Just. 2, 4, relates that their right breast was removed in childhood, to enable them to handle the bow more conveniently], an Amazon; and plur., Amazons, warlike women, who dwelt on the river Thermodon.
I Lit.: Threiciae Amazones, Verg. A. 11, 659: exsultat Amazon, id. ib. 11, 648: Amazon Mavortia, Val. Fl. 5, 89: peltata, Sen. Agam. 218 al.—
II Metaph., a heroine of love , Ov. A. A. 2, 743; 3, 1.—Hence,
a Ămāzŏnĭ-cus , a, um, Amazonian , Mel.1, 19, 13; Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43; Suet. Ner. 44.—
b Ămāzŏ-nis , ĭdis, f., = Amazon, an Amazon : Amazonidum agmina, Verg. A. 1, 490: Amazonidum gens, Val. Fl. 4, 602: Amazonidum turba, Prop. 4, 13, 13.—Also, title of a poem composed by a poet named Marsus , Mart. 4, 29, 8.—
c Ămāzŏnĭus , a, um, poet. for Amazonicus, Amazonian : securis, Hor. C. 4, 4, 20, and Ov. P. 3, 1, 95: genus, Sen. Hippol. 237: vir Amazonius, i. e. Hippolytus , the son of an Amazon by Theseus, Ov. H. 4, 2.