Mygdones

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

Mygdŏnes, um, m., = Μυγδόνες,

I a people of Thrace, who afterwards took possession of a part of Phrygia , Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 35; 5, 30, 33, § 126.—

II Derivv.

A Mygdŏnĭa , ae, f., = Μυγδονία.

1 A district in Macedonia , Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 38.—

2 A district in Phrygia , Plin. 5, 32, 41, § 145; Sol. 40, 9.—

3 A district in Mesopotamia , Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 42.—

4 A district in Bithynia , Sol. 42, 1; Amm. 22, 8, 14.—

B Mygdŏnĭdes , ae, m., the son of Mygdon , Verg. A. 2, 342.—

C Mygdŏnis , ĭdis, f., a Mygdonian, Phrygian, Lydian : Mygdonidesque nurus, i. e. Lydiae, Ov. M. 6, 45.—

D Mygdŏnĭus , a, um, adj.

1 Mygdonian, Phrygian : campi, Hor. C. 3, 16, 41: opes, id. ib. 2, 12, 22: marmor, i. e. Phrygium, Ov. H. 15, 142: mater, the mother of the gods, Cybele , Val. Fl. 3, 47: senex, Tithonus, the husband of Aurora, and son of the Phrygian king Laomedon , Stat. S. 2, 2, 108. —

2 Thracian : Melas, Ov. M. 2, 247.

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