amazonium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Amazon, Amazonis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Mythology
Amazon, member of race of legendary female warriors; woman as man's antagonist;
gen. pl.
Examples
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...praefert? quem petit dextra uirum Lacaena cultu, ferrum Amazonium gerens? quae uersat oculos alia nunc facies meos? uictor..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...utinam liceret stipite ingesto impiam effringere animam quale Amazonium malum circa niualis Caucasi domui latus. o cara Megara..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...immitis annos caelibi uitae dicat, conubia uitat: genus Amazonium scias. Ph. Hunc in niuosi collis haerentem iugis..."