Ancȳra, ae, f., = Ἄγκυρα.
I A town in Galatia , now Angora , where was a marble temple of Augustus, built in his lifetime, Liv. 38, 24; Curt. 3, 1; Plin. 5, 32, 42, § 146; Claud. in Eutr. 2, 98.—
II A town in Phrygia , Plin. 5, 32, 41, § 145.—Whence, Ancȳrānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ancyra , Claud. in Eutr. 2, 416: Marmor or Monumentum Ancyranum, a Latin inscription on the inside of the antae of the temple of Augustus , containing a record of his deeds , being a copy of the bronze tablets placed in front of his Mausoleum; cf. Suet. Aug. 101, and Wolf , Suet. II. p. 369 sq.; cf. Bähr , Lit. Gesch. p. 286.