Īlĭum or Īlĭon, ĭi, n., = Ἴλιον,
I a poetical name for Troja, the city of Ilium , Troy , Verg. A. 1, 68; 5, 261; Hor. C. 1, 15, 33; Ov. M. 6, 95; 13, 408; Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 et saep.—Called also Īlĭos , i, f., acc. to the Gr. Ἴλιος, Hor. C. 4, 9, 18; id. Epod. 14, 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 363; id. M. 14, 467.—Also a later Ilium , built upon the coast , Liv. 35, 43, 3; 37, 9, 7.—
II Derivv.
A Īlĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ilium , Ilian , Trojan : tellus, Verg. A. 9, 285: res, id. ib. 1, 268: matres, Hor. Epod. 17, 11: turmae, id. Carm. Sec. 37.—Subst.: Īlĭi , ōrum, m., the Trojans , Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 27.—
B Īlĭăcus , a, um, adj., the same: orae, Verg. A. 2, 117: classis, id. ib. 5, 607: fata, id. ib. 3, 182: Penates, id. ib. 3, 603: cineres, id. ib. 2, 431: amores, i. e. Paris , Mart. 12, 52, 9: hospes Didus, i. e. Aeneas , Sil. 8, 50: Vesta, worshipped at Troy , Ov. F. 6, 227; hence, Alba, where also Vesta was worshipped, Luc. 5, 400: carmen, i. e. Homer's Iliad , Hor. A. P. 129; cf.: Macer, a poet who wrote on the Trojan war , Ov. P. 4, 16, 6: dextra, i. e. Ganymede's , Stat. S. 4, 2, 11: mons, i. e. Phrygian marble , id. ib. 27: Iliacoque jugum memorabile remo, i. e. the promontory of Misenum , where Misenus , a follower of Aeneas , was drowned , id. ib. 3, 5, 98: muri, i. e. of Rome , as founded by descendants of the Trojan Aeneas, Sil. 10, 387; hence, also, cuspis, of the consul Flaminius , id. 5, 595.—Prov.: Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 16.—
C Īlĭenses , ium, m., inhabitants of Ilium , Ilians , Suet. Tib. 52; id. Claud. 25; id. Ner. 7.—
D Īlĭădes , ae, m., the Trojan , i. e. Ganymede , Ov. M. 10, 160.—
E Īlĭas , ădis, f.
1 The Trojan woman , i. e. Helen , Ov. Tr. 2, 371.—In plur.: Īlĭădes , um, Trojan women or girls , Verg. A. 3, 65; 2, 580.—
2 The celebrated epic poem that describes the Trojan war , the Iliad , Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 66; Ov. A. A. 3, 414. —On account of its great extent, used fig. to represent a great quantity or number, an Iliad , a whole Iliad , Ov. P. 2, 7, 33; cf. written as Greek: tanta malorum impendet Ἰλιάς, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 3; and in plur.: tunc vero longas condimus Iliadas, Prop. 2, 1, 14.