Mediolanum

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

Mĕdĭōlānum or Mĕdĭōlānĭum, i, n.

I A city in Gallia Cisalpina, the capital of the Insubres , the mod. Milan . Form Mediolanum, Plin. 3, 17, 21, § 124; Just. 29, 5, 8; Tac. H. 1, 70; Aus. de Clar. Urb. 4, 1. Form Mediolanium, Liv. 5, 34, 9; 34, 46, 1; Suet. Aug. 20.—Hence,

B Mĕdĭōlā-nensis , e, adj., of or belonging to Milan, Milanese : (ager), Varr. R. R. 1, 8: praeco, Cic. Pis. 26, 62.—In plur.: Mĕdĭōlānen-ses , ĭum, m., the Milanese , Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 2. —

II The chief city of the Santoni in Gaul, on the river Carantonus , now Saintes , Amm. 15, 11, 12; Itin. Anton. p. 459, 3.

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