Lyde

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

Lȳdē, ēs, f., = Λύδη,

I the wife of the poet Antimachus of Claros, who attempted to console himself for her death by an elegiac poem which he named Lyde : Clario Lyde dilecta poëtae, Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 1.—

II The name of a female quack-doctor : turgida condīta pyxide Lyde, Juv. 2, 141.