1. īlĭum — Lewis & Short
īlĭum or īlĭon, ĭi, n., = *)/ilion,
I a poetical name for Troja, the city of Ilium, Troy, Verg. A. 1, 68; 5, 261; Hor. C. 1, 15, 33; Ov. M. 6, 95; 13, 408; Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 et saep.—Called also īlĭos, i, f., acc. to the Gr. *)/ilios, Hor. C. 4, 9, 18; id. Epod. 14, 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 363; id. M. 14, 467.—Also a later Ilium, built upon the coast, Liv. 35, 43, 3; 37, 9, 7.—
II Derivv.
A īlĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ilium, Ilian, Trojan:
tellus,Verg. A. 9, 285:
res,id. ib. 1, 268:
matres,Hor. Epod. 17, 11:
turmae,id. Carm. Sec. 37.—Subst.: īlĭi, ōrum, m., the Trojans, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 27.—
B īlĭăcus, a, um, adj., the same:
orae,Verg. A. 2, 117:
classis,id. ib. 5, 607:
fata,id. ib. 3, 182:
Penates,id. ib. 3, 603:
cineres,id. ib. 2, 431:
amores,i. e. Paris, Mart. 12, 52, 9:
hospes Didus,i. e. Æneas, Sil. 8, 50:
Vesta,worshipped at Troy, Ov. F. 6, 227;
hence, Alba, where also Vesta was worshipped,Luc. 5, 400: carmen, i. e. Homer's Iliad, Hor. A. P. 129; cf.:
Macer,a poet who wrote on the Trojan war, Ov. P. 4, 16, 6:
dextra,i. e. Ganymede's, Stat. S. 4, 2, 11:
mons,i. e. Phrygian marble, id. ib. 27:
Iliacoque jugum memorabile remo,i. e. the promontory of Misenum, where Misenus, a follower of Æneas, was drowned, id. ib. 3, 5, 98: muri, i. e. of Rome, as founded by descendants of the Trojan Æneas, Sil. 10, 387;
hence, also, cuspis,of the consul Flaminius, id. 5, 595.—Prov.:
Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra,Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 16.—
C īlĭenses, ium, m., inhabitants of Ilium, Ilians, Suet. Tib. 52; id. Claud. 25; id. Ner. 7.—
D īlĭădes, ae, m., the Trojan, i. e. Ganymede, Ov. M. 10, 160.—
E īlĭas, ădis, f.
1 The Trojan woman, i. e. Helen, Ov. Tr. 2, 371.—In plur.: īlĭădes, um, Trojan women or girls, Verg. A. 3, 65; 2, 580.—
2 The celebrated epic poem that describes the Trojan war, the Iliad, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 66; Ov. A. A. 3, 414. —On account of its great extent, used fig. to represent a great quantity or number, an Iliad, a whole Iliad, Ov. P. 2, 7, 33; cf. written as Greek: tanta malorum impendet *)ilia/s, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 3; and in plur.:
tunc vero longas condimus Iliadas,Prop. 2, 1, 14.