cycneus

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

cȳcnēus (cȳgn-), a, um, adj., = κύκνειος.

I Of or belonging to a swan, swan's- : tamquam cycnea vox et oratio, i. e. the last speech , Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: plumae, Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 1.—

II Cȳcnēa (al. Cygnaea) Specula, a hill near Brixia , now still Cigneo , Cat. 67, 32.

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