Lyctus

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

Lyctus or -os, i, f., = Λύκτος,

I a city of Crete, east of Cnossus, a colony of the Lacedaemonians , Mel. 2, 7, 12; Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 59.

II —Hence, Lyctĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lyctus, Lyctian, Cretan : Lyctius Idomeneus, Verg. A. 3, 401: classis, i. e. the Cretan , Ov. M. 7, 490.

Related Words