Bistŏnes — Lewis & Short
Bistŏnes, um, m., = *bi/stones,
I the Bistones, a Thracian people south of Mount Rhodope, not far from Abdera, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 42.—In the poets,
B In gen., for the Thracians, Luc. 7, 569; acc. Bistonas, Val. Fl. 3, 83; Sil. 2, 76.—
II Derivv.
A Bistŏnĭus, a, um, adj., = *bisto/nios, pertaining to the Bistones.
1 Bistonian: plăgae. Lucr. 5, 30.—
2 In gen., Thracian:
rupes,Prop. 2 (3), 30, 36.
viri,the Thracians, Ov. M. 13, 430:
aqua,id. H. 2, 90:
sarissae,id. P. 1, 3, 59:
Minerva (as goddess of the warlike Thracians),id. Ib. 377:
Tereus,Verg. Cul. 251:
tyrannus,i. e. the Thracian king Diomedes, Luc. 2, 163:
aves, i. e. grues,id. 3, 200:
turbo,i. e. a violent north wind, id. 4, 767:
ensis Tydei,Stat. Th. 2, 586: chelys, the lyre of the Thracian Orpheus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. praef. 2, 8 al.—Subst.: Bistŏ-nĭa, ae, f., = *bistonia, Thrace:
Bistoniae magnus alumnus,i. e. Orpheus, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—
B Bistŏnis, ĭdis, adj. f., = *bistoni/s, pertaining to the Bistones, for Thracian: ora. Ov. H. 15 (16), 344:
terra,id. P. 2, 9, 54: ales i. e. Procne, wife of the Thracian king Tereus, Sen. Agam. 670.—
2 Subst., a Thracian woman:
Bistonidum crines,of the Thracian Bacchantes, Hor. C. 2, 19, 20; so Verg. Cir. 164, ubi v. Sillig.