dromos

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

drŏmos, i, m., = δρόμος.

I A place for running; a race-course , Grut. Inscr. 339, 2.—

II Esp., as nom. prop. , Drŏmŏs , i, m., the plain near Sparta , on which the Lacedaemonian youth exercised, Liv. 34, 27, 5.—

2 Dromos Achilleos, a peninsula west of the Crimea , on which Achilles was said to have run a race , Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 83.

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