Ossa

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

Ossa, ae, f. (m., Ov. M. 1, 155), = Ὄσσα,

I a high mountain in Thessaly , now Kissovo , Mel. 2, 3, 2; Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30: ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam, Verg. G. 1, 281: Ossan, Ov. F. 1, 307.

II —Hence, Ossaeus , a, um, adj., Ossean : saxa, Verg. Cir. 33: rupes, Luc. 6, 334: media, Stat. Th. 2, 82: Ossaei bimembres, i. e. the Centaurs who dwell about Ossa , id. ib. 12, 554.

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