Ignigena

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

Ignĭgĕna, ae, m. [ignis-gigno],

the fire-born , a poetical epithet of Bacchus, whose mother, Semele, was killed by lightning, Ov. M. 4, 12; cf. ib. 3, 305 sq.

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