lychnus

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

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.

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