Myrmidones

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

Myrmĭdŏnes, um, m., = Μυρμιδόνες,

the Myrmidons, a people of Phthiotis ( Thessaly ), about Phthia and Larissa Cremaste, under the sway of Achilles , Enn. ap. Non. 472, 27 (Trag. v. 222 Vahl.); Verg. A. 2, 7; Ov. M. 7, 654.—In sing. also as fem. : cruentae Vulnere Myrmidonis, Stat. Th. 5, 223.

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