Araxes

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Ăraxes, is, m., = Ἀράξης.

I A river in Armenia Major , now Aras , Verg. A. 8, 728; Prop. 4, 11, 8; Sen. Hippol. 47; Plin. 6, 9, 9, § 25; Mel. 3, 5, 5.—Trop., a dweller on the Araxes : pharetratus Araxes, Stat. S. 5, 2, 32.—

II A river in Persia , now Bendemir , Curt. 4, 5, 21.

Related Words