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Euboea

Euboea · f

an island in the Aegean Sea

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Where it lives

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What it meant

Euboea — Lewis & Short

Euboea, ae, f., = *eu)/boia,

I an island in the Aegean Sea, separated from Boeotia by Euripus, now Negroponte, Mel. 2, 7, 9; Plin. 4, 12, 21, § 63; Ov. M. 13, 660 al.
II Derivv.
A Eubŏĭcus, a, um, adj., Euboean: litus, Prop. 2, 26, 38 (3, 22, 18 M.); cf. cautes, i. e. the promontory Caphareus, Verg. A. 11, 260: sinus, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 114. undae, Ov. M. 9, 218: Anthedon, in Boeotia, opposite Euboea, id. 7, 232; 13, 905; cf.: cultor aquarum, i. e. Glaucus, from Anthedon, id. ib. 14, 4: urbs, i. e. Cumae, as a colony of Euboean Chalcidians, id. ib. 14, 155; cf.: orae Cumarum, Verg. A. 6, 2; hence, Sibylla, the Cumaean Sibyl, Mart. 9, 30: carmen, of the Cumaean Sibyl, Ov. F. 4, 257: pulveris anni, the great age of the Sibyl, Stat. S. 1, 4, 126; cf. Ov. M. 14, 136: talentum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 78, 14 Müll.—
B Euboeüs, a, um, adj., Euboean: plebes, Stat. S. 5, 3, 137.—
C Eubŏïs, ĭdis, f., adj., the same: ora, Stat. Ach. 1, 414: tellus, i. e. the region about Cumae, id. S. 1, 2, 263.

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