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Revision as of 07:28, 14 August 2017
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Βίστονες, οἱ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Bistŏnes: um, m., = Βίστονες,
I the Bistones, a Thracian people south of Mount Rhodope, not far from Abdera, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 42.—In the poets,
B In gen., for the Thracians, Luc. 7, 569; acc. Bistonas, Val. Fl. 3, 83; Sil. 2, 76.—
II Derivv.
A Bistŏnĭus, a, um, adj., = Βιστόνιος, pertaining to the Bistones.
1 Bistonian: plăgae. Lucr. 5, 30.—
2 In gen., Thracian: rupes, Prop. 2 (3), 30, 36: viri, the Thracians, Ov. M. 13, 430: aqua, id. H. 2, 90: sarissae, id. P. 1, 3, 59: Minerva (as goddess of the warlike Thracians), id. Ib. 377: Tereus, Verg. Cul. 251: tyrannus, i. e. the Thracian king Diomedes, Luc. 2, 163: aves, i. e. grues, id. 3, 200: turbo, i. e. a violent north wind, id. 4, 767: ensis Tydei, Stat. Th. 2, 586: chelys, the lyre of the Thracian Orpheus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. praef. 2, 8 al.—Subst.: Bistŏ-nĭa, ae, f., = Βιστονια, Thrace: Bistoniae magnus alumnus, i. e. Orpheus, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—
B Bistŏnis, ĭdis, adj. f., = Βιστονίς, pertaining to the Bistones, for Thracian: ora. Ov. H. 15 (16), 344: terra, id. P. 2, 9, 54: ales i. e. Procne, wife of the Thracian king Tereus, Sen. Agam. 670.—
2 Subst., a Thracian woman: Bistonidum crines, of the Thracian Bacchantes, Hor. C. 2, 19, 20; so Verg. Cir. 164, ubi v. Sillig.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Bistŏnes,¹⁶ um, m. (Βίστονες), nom des Thraces : Plin. 4, 42.
