Atacinus

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

Ătăcīnus, a, um, adj.,

pertaining to the river Atax , in Gallia Narbonensis, Atacian : Ătăcīni , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Gallia Narbonensis, Mel. 2, 5, 2: P. Terentius Varro Atacinus, a poet from that region , flourishing in the time of Caesar , single fragments of whose writings are yet extant; the author of an Argonautica, Hor. S. 1, 10, 46; cf. Ov. Am. 1, 15, 21; Prop. 3, 32, 85; Stat. S. 2, 7, 77; Quint. 10, 1, 87; Bähr, Röm. Lit. Gesch. p. 128, and Teuffel, Röm. Lit. § 208, 1. (Upon his measure and style, cf. Spald. and Frotsch. ad Quint. l. l.)