Lagus

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

Lāgus, i, m.,

I the father of Ptolemy I. king of Egypt : regia Lagi, Luc. 10, 527: famosa moenia Lagi, Juv. 6, 83: flumina Lagi, i. e. Nilus, Sil. 17, 592.—Hence,

II Lāgēus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lagus, Lagian , poet. for Egyptian : Nilus, Luc. 1, 684; cf. amnis, Sil. 1, 196: litora, Mart. 10, 26, 4: ratis, Sil. 10, 322.