Aetnaeus
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
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Aetnaeum Proper-name adjective: neuter vocative singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name adjective: masculine accusative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter genitive plural, Proper-name adjective: neuter nominative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter accusative singular of Aetnaeus
- Pertaining to Aetna: ignes, Cic. N. D. 2, 38: fratres, the Cyclopes who forged in Mt. Aetna, Verg. A. 3, 678: fulmen, Prop. 4, 16, 21: Deus, i. e. Vulcan, who is said to have had his forge in Mt. Aetna, Val. Fl. 2, 420.— Subst.: Aetnaei, ōrum, m., those who dwell on or near Mt. Aetna, Just. 22, 1.— Hence,
- II Poet., pars pro toto, Sicilian: triumphi, Sil. 9, 196.
(Αἰτναῖος), an epithet given to several gods and mythical beings connected with Mount Aetna, such as Zeus, of whom there was a statue on mount Aetna, and to whom a festival was celebrated there, called Aetnaea (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 6.162), Hephaestus, who had his workshop in the mountain, and a temple near it (Ael. NA 11.3; Spanheim, ad Callim. hymn. in Dian. 56), and the Cyclops. (Virg. Acn. 8.440, 11.263, 3.768; Ov. Pont. 2.2. 115.) [L.S]
- Paus. 9.25.6