cycneus

cȳcnēus (cȳgn-), a, um, adj., = κύκνειος.

• Of or belonging to a swan, swan's-: tamquam cycnea vox et oratio, i. e. the last speech, Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: plumae, Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 1.—
• II Cȳcnēa (al. Cygnaea) Specula, a hill near Brixia, now still Cigneo, Cat. 67, 32.

cycnēus (cygnēus), a, um (κύκνειος), zum Schwane gehörig, Schwanen –, ovum, Verg. cat. 11, 27: plumae, Ov. trist. 4, 8, 1: cycneo canore vox dulcior, Hieron. epist. 60, 1: tamquam cycnea fuit divini hominis vox et oratio, sein Schwanengesang, Cic. de or. 3, 6: u. so qui (Homerus, Hesiodus) grandes natu cycneum nescio quid et solito dulcius vicinā morte cecinerunt, Hieron. epist. 52, 3.

cycneus [CL < κύκνειος] , a like a swan-song. b swan-like (in whiteness). a imminente jam letali articulo ‥ quasi cigneo quodam modulamine testabatur Ad. Eyns. Hug. III 7.  b Aldh. VirgP 23 (v. canities a); oblitus cygneam capitis sui canitiem Byrht. V. Osw. 471; ubi ad cigneam etatis speciem pervenit mortemque sibi jam instare persensit Dominic V. Ecgwini I 17; senex ‥ capillis cigneus W. Malm. GP III 116.

cycnēus (16) ou cygnēus, a, um (κύκνειος), de cygne : Cic. de Or. 3, 6 ; cycneum nescio quid canere Hier. Ep. 52, 3, faire entendre je ne sais quel chant de cygne.

cycnēus (cȳgn-) adj.

• , κύκνειος, of a swan: vox et oratio, i. e. the last speech.