Casinum

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

Căsīnum, i, n.,

I a town of Latium , east of Aquinium , now ruins near S. Germano : its citadel the present Monte Casino , Varr. L. L. 7, § 29, p. 86 Bip.; id. R. R. 3, 4, 2; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 63.—

II Hence the adjj. ,

A Căsīnas , ātis, of Casinum : ager, Cato R. R. 136; Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 65: fundus, id. Phil. 2, 40, 103; and absol. : in Casinati or Casinate, in the region of Casinum , Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 11; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227.—

B Căsīnus , a, um, of Casinum : Nymphae, Sil. 12, 527 dub. (others, Casini Nymphae).

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