Ida

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

Īda, ae, or Īdē, ēs, f., = Ἴδα or Ἴδη.

I A high mountain in Crete , where the infant Jupiter was hid , watched over by the Curetes , and fed by Amalthea; now Psiloriti , Verg. A. 12, 412; Ov. M. 4, 293; id. Am. 3, 10, 25; id. F. 4, 207; 5, 115 al.; in Prop. 3, 1, 27, this mountain and no. II. are confounded.—

B Deriv.: Īdaeus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ida , Idean : mons, i. e. Ida , Verg. A. 3, 105; Mel. 2, 7, 12: antra, Ov. M. 4, 289: Juppiter, Verg. A. 7, 139: Dactyli, Plin. 37, 10, 61, § 170; the same, Digiti, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42: bustum, raised by the Cretans to Jupiter , Mart. 9, 35, 1.—

II A high mountain in Phrygia , near Troy , still called Ida , Mel. 1, 18, 2; Plin. 5, 30, 32, § 122; Verg. A. 2, 801; 10, 158; Ov. F. 4, 79; id. M. 10, 71; and 12, 521 (Ide) et saep.—

B Deriv. Īdaeus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mount lda , Idean; poet. also for Phrygian or Trojan : silva, Verg. A. 2, 696: pices, id. G. 3, 450: vertices, Prop. 2, 2, 14; Ov. M. 14, 535: parens deum, i. e. Cybele , who was worshipped on Mount Ida (acc. to others this belongs to Mount Ida of Crete), Verg. A. 10, 252; Ov. F. 4, 182: Sollemne, i. e. in honor of Cybele , Juv. 11, 194: chori, Verg. A. 9, 112: judex, i. e Paris , Ov. F. 6, 44: pastor, Cic. Att. 1, 18, 4: hospes, Ov. H. 16, 303: hospes numinis Idaei, i. e. Scipio Nasica, Juv. 3, 138: cinaedus, Ganymede as stolen away from Ida, Mart. 10, 98, 2: urbes, Phrygian , Verg. A. 7, 207: naves, i. e. Trojan , Hor. C. 1, 15, 2: sanguis, i. e. of Romans descended from the Trojans , Sil. 1, 126. —Confounded with Idaeus, I. B.: Idaeum Simoënta Jovis cum prole Scamandro, Prop 3 (4), 1, 27.—

III A Trojan female , Verg. A. 9, 177.

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