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Aenus2

Aenus2 · f

a city of Thrace

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Aenus — Lewis & Short

Aenus or -os, i, f., = *ai)=nos,

I a city of Thrace, south-east of the Palus Stentoris, through which one of the mouths of the Hebrus falls into the sea, now Enos, Mel. 2, 2, 8; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 43; Cic. Fl. 14; Liv. 31, 16 4.—Hence,
II Aenĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Ænus, Liv. 37, 33; 38, 41; 45, 27.

2. Aenus — Lewis & Short

Aenus, i, m.,

I the river Inn, Tac. H. 3, 5.

3. ăēnus — Lewis & Short

ăēnus (trisyl.; less freq. ăhēn-), a, um, adj.aes,

I of copper or bronze (only poet. for aheneus; yet Hor. uses the latter oftener than the former).
I Lit.: signa, the bronze images of the gods, Lucr 1, 316: ahënis in scaphiis, id. 6, 1045, falcīs, id. 5, 1293; cf. Verg. A. 4, 513; lux, i. e. armorum aënorum, id. ib. 2, 470: crateres, id. ib. 9, 165.— Hence, ăēnum (sc. vas), a bronze vessel: litore aëna locant, Verg. A. 1, 213; so Ov. M. 6, 645, Juv. 15, 81 al., of the bronze vessels in which the purple color was prepared, Ov. F 3, 822; Sen. Herc. Oet. 663; Stat. S. 1, 2, 151 (hence, aenulum).—
II Trop.
A Firm, invincible (cf. adamantinus): manus, Hor. C. 1, 35, 18.—
B Hard, rigorous, inexorable: corda, Stat. Th. 3, 380.

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