Molossi

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

Mŏlossi, ōrum, m., = Μολοσσοί,

the Molossians, a people in the eastern part of Epirus , Plin. 4 prooem.; Cic. Div. 1, 34, 76; Nep. Them. 8, 4.—They were so called from Molossus, the son of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, and Andromache, acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 3, 297.—Hence,

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