Messana

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Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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See Messene.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Messāna: ae, f., = Μεσσήνη.
I A Sicilian city, situated on the strait between Italy and Sicily, the mod. Messina, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 8, § 17; Caes. B. C. 2, 3; Mel. 2, 7, 16: incumbens Messana freto, Sil. 14, 194.—
II Another name for Messene, in the Peloponnesus, Stat. Ach. 1, 422.—Hence, Messānĭus, a, um, adj., Messanic: moenia, Ov. M. 14, 17 Merkel.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Messāna,¹¹ æ, f., Messine [ville de Sicile] : Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17 ; Cæs. C. 2, 3 || Messène [ville du Péloponnèse] : Stat. Ach. 1, 422.

Latin > German (Georges)

Messāna, ae, f. (Μεσσήνη, dorisch Μεσσάνα), Stadt auf Sizilien an der Meerenge zwischen Italien u. Sizilien, früher Zancle gen., j. Messina, Cic. Verr. 2, 13. Caes. b. c. 2, 3. Sil. 14, 195. – Vom griech. Μεσσήνη abgel. Messēnius, a, um, messenisch, moenia, der Stadt Messana, Ov. met. 14, 17.