cydoniae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Cydonia, Cydoniae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Geography:
- Greece
Cydonia, city in Crete; (now Canea L+S))
dat. sg.gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...turdi siligine uvis passis nucibusque farsi. Insecuta sunt Cydonia etiam mala spinis confixa, ut echinos efficerent. Et haec..." - P
Ecloga X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...rupes uideor lucosque sonantis ire; libet Partho torquere Cydonia cornu spicula; tamquam haec sit nostri medicina furoris..." - P
Ars Amatoria III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...quas nova laesit hiemps, Quaeque suos curvant matura cydonia ramos, Cornaque adhuc nostris non satis apta cibis..."