Samothracia
Samothrācia, ae, f.: Thracian Samos, a small island about thirty-eight miles south of the Thracian coast, supposed by some to have been colonized from Samos, 7.208.
Sămŏthrācĭa, ae, f.,
- Samothrace, an island near the coast of Thrace, famous for the mystic worship of the Cabiri, now Samothraki, Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119; 3, 37, 87; id. Pis. 36, 89; Varr. L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Verg. A. 7, 208.—Also called Sămŏthrācē, ēs, f., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 5; Mel. 2, 7, 8; Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 73; Sămŏthrāca, ae, f., Liv. 42, 25; 44, 45; 44, 46; and Thrēïcĭa Să-mus or Sămos, after the Gr. θρηϊκίη Σάμος, Verg. A. 7, 208; Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 20.— Hence,
- 1 Sămŏthrācĭus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: ferrea (a kind of rings first made there), Lucr. 6, 1044 (cf. Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 23): caepa, Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 101: insula, i. e. Samothrace, and, named from it, gemma, id. 37, 10, 67, § 181 (Jahn, Samothraca). —
- 2 Sămŏthrāces, um, m., the inhabitants of Samothrace, the Samothracians, Varr. L. L. 5, § 58; Liv. 45, 5; Curt. 8, 1, 25; Stat. Ach. 2, 157.—Also a dject.: Samothraces di, the Cabiri, Varr. 1. 1.; Macr. S. 3, 4; also absol.: jures licet et Samothracum Et nostrorum aras, Juv. 3, 144.—
- 3 Sămŏthrācēnus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: Zocles, of Samothrace, Plin. 11, 37, 63, § 167.—
- 4 Sămŏthrācĭcus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: religiones, Macr. S. 3, 4.—
- 5 Sămŏthrācus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: vates, Val. Fl. 2, 439.
Sămŏthrācĭa, (14) æ, f. , Samothrace [île et ville de la mer Égée] : Cic. Nat. 1, 119 ; Virg. En. 7, 208 || -cĭcus Macr. Sat. 3, 4, 8 et -cĭus, a, um, Plin. 19, 101 ; Isid. Orig. 19, 32, 5 ou -cus, a, um, Val. Flacc. 2, 439, de Samothrace.