Potniae

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

Potnĭae, ārum, f., = Ποτνιαί,

I a village in Boeotia , on the Asopus , in whose neighborhood were pastures which made animals mad , Plin. 25, 8, 53, § 94.—Hence,

II Pot-nĭas , ădis, adj. f. , = Ποτνιάς, of Potniae , Potnian (poet.): quo tempore Glauci Potniades malis membra absumpsere quadrigae (i. e. equae), Verg. G. 3, 268: equae, Ov. lb. 557.

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