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Cimmerii

A Thracian people in the present Crimea

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Cimmĕrii — Lewis & Short

Cimmĕrii, ōrum (

I gen. Cimmeriūm, Val. Fl. 3, 399; Cimmeriōn, Tib. 4, 1, 64), m., = *kimme/rioi.

I A Thracian people in the present Crimea, on both sides of the Dnieper, whose chief town was Cimmerium, Mel. 1, 19, 15; Plin. 6, 6, 5, § 17; 6, 13, 14, § 35.— Hence,

B Adj.

1 Cimmĕrĭus, a, um, Cimmerian: Bosporus, Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 77: litus, Ov. P. 4, 10, 1.—

2 Cimmĕrĭcus, a, um, Cimmerian: oppida, Mel. 2, 1, 3.—

II A fabulous people supposed to have dwelt in caves, between Baiœ and Cumœ, Fest. p. 43, 4 sq.; cf. Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 61; Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 61; Sil. 12, 132; perpetual darkness prevailed among them, Tib. 4, 1, 64; Val. Fl. 3, 398; here Somnus had his abode, Ov. M. 11, 592 sq.—Poet., the Lower World: Cimmerii lacus, Tib. 3, 5, 24; cf. Verg. Cul. 230; v. Lidd. and Scott, under *kimme/rioi.

In the wild

Cimmeriosque Tibullus, Elegiae 3.5.24
Cimmerios Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.4.18
Cimmerios Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 232
Cimmerios Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.592

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