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Acidalia

Acidalia · f

an epithet of Venus

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Where it lives

Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

ăcīdălĭa — Lewis & Short

ăcīdălĭa, ae, f., = *)akidali/a,

I an epithet of Venus, perhaps from the Fountain Acidalius, in Boeotia, where the Graces, daughters of Venus, used to bathe, Verg. A. 1, 720 Serv.—Hence, ăcīdălĭus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Venus: ludit Acidalio nodo, with the girdle of Venus, Mart. 6, 13: arundo, id. 9, 14: ales, i. e. a dove, Carm. ad Pis. 79.

In the wild

Acidaliae Vergil, Aeneid 1.720

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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