lychnus (old Latinized form lucinus, Enn.; cf. Ritschl in Rhein. Mus. 10, p. 448 sq.), i, m., = λύχνος,
a light, a lamp : pendentes lychni, Lucr. 5, 295: lux alia est solis et lychnorum, Cic. Cael. 28, 67; Verg. A. 1, 726; Stat. Th. 1, 520.
lychnus ī, m , λύχνος, a light, lamp: lux lychnorum: dependent lychni laquearibus, V. ...
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