Ask at the forum if you have an Ancient or Modern Greek query!

Getae

From LSJ
Revision as of 18:38, 19 May 2020 by Spiros (talk | contribs) (Template WoodhouseENELnames replacement using csv2wiki)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Δίκαιος ἐὰν ᾖς, πανταχοῦ τῷ τρόπῳ χρήσῃ νόμῳ († λαληθήσῃ) → Si iustus es pro lege tibi mores erunt → Bist du gerecht, ist dein Charakter dir Gesetz (wirst du in aller Munde sein)

Menander, Monostichoi, 135

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Γέται, οἱ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Gĕtae: ārum, m., = Γέται,
I a Thracian tribe on the Danube, bordering on the Dacians, the Getœ, Cic. Att. 9, 10, 3; Mel. 2, 2, 3; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41; 4, 12, 25, § 80; Cic. Att. 9, 10, 3; Verg. G. 3, 462; Ov. P. 3, 4, 92; Hor. C. 3, 24, 11; 4, 15, 22.—In sing.: Gĕta, ae, m., a Getan, Ov. P. 1, 8, 6; Sen. Hippol. 167; in the Gr. form, Gĕtes, ae, Ov. P. 1, 2, 108; 2, 1, 66; Luc. 2, 54 al.—
   B Transf.: Gĕta, ae, m., a Roman surname; as C. Licinius Geta, consul A. U. C. 638, censor 646, Cic. Clu. 42, 119; and Geta, brother and coregent of the emperor Caracalla, Spart. Ant. Geta, 1 sqq. Also the name of a Greek slave, Ter. Ad. and Phorm.—
II Derivv.
   A Gĕtes, ae, adj. m., of or belonging to the Getœ, Getan: poëta, Ov. P. 4, 13, 17: Hebrus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1041.—
   B Gĕtĭcus, a, um, adj., Getan, in poet. transf. also for Thracian: gens, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 13: arma, id. P. 2, 8, 69; hence also: maritus Veneris (i.e. Mars), Stat. S. 1, 2, 53: sermo, Ov. P. 4, 13, 19: lyra, i. e. of the Thracian Orpheus, Stat. S. 3, 1, 17; cf. plectrum, id. ib. 2, 2, 61: volucres, i. e. the swallows (because Progne, wife of the Thracian king Tereus, was changed into a swallow), id. Th. 12, 478: (aqua) frigidior Geticis pruinis, Juv. 5, 50—Adv.: Gĕtĭce, like the Getœ: loqui, Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 58.