Dores

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

Dōres, um, m. (Gr. gen. pl. Dorieon, Vitr. 4, 1, 5),

I Δωριεῖς, the Dorians , Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 8; id. Fl. 27, 64; their progenitor , Dōrus, i, m., son of Hellen , Vitr. 4, 1; or of Neptune , acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 2, 27—

II Derivv.

A Dōrĭcus , a, um, adj., Doric : gens, Plin. 6, 2, 2, § 7: genus (architecturae), Vitr. 4, 6: aedes, id. ib.: symmetria, id. ib.: castra, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 34: dicta, i. e. in the Doric dialect , Quint. 8, 3, 59 (al. adv. Dōrĭce dicta; so Suet. Tib. 56: Dorice Rhodii loquuntur); hence, also: Dorici, ōrum, m., those who speak Doric , Gell. 2, 26, 10.—

2 Meton. for Grecian , Greek : castra, Verg. A. 2, 27; 6, 88; Prop. 2, 8, 32 (2, 8, b. 16, M.): nox, Val. Fl. 2, 573: ignes, Sen. Agm. 611: Ancon, Juv. 4, 40.—

B Dōrĭ-us , a, um, adj., Doric : carmen, Hor. Epod. 9, 6; cf. moduli, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 204: phthongus, id. 2, 23, 20, § 84; and subst., Dōri-um , ii, n.: tibicen Dorium canebat bellicosum, Ap. Met. 10, 31, 24.—

C Dōrĭ-enses , ium, m., the Dorians , Just. 2, 6, 16. —

D Dōris , ĭdis, adj. fem. , Doric : dialectos, Suet. Tib. 56: Malea, Luc. 9, 36: tellus, i. e. Sicily , Sen. Herc. Fur. 81.—

b Subst.

α A country in Hellas , Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 7, 13, § 28; in Asia Minor , id. 5, 27, 29, § 103 sq.—

β A daughter of Oceanus , wife of Nereus , and mother of fifty seanymphs , Ov. M. 2, 11; 269; Prop. 1, 17, 25; Hyg. Fab. praef.—Also, wife of Dionysius I , Tyrant of Syracuse , Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59; Val. Max. 9, 13, ext. 1.—Also, the name of a Greek girl , Juv. 3, 94; Prop. 4, 7, 72.— Meton., the sea , Verg. E. 10, 5; Ov. F. 4, 678; Stat. S. 3, 2, 89.—

γ A plant , called also pseudoanchusa and echis, Plin. 22, 20, 24, § 50.

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