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Sīgēum

Sīgēum · n

a promontory in Troas

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What it meant

Sīgēum — Lewis & Short

Sīgēum, i, n., = *si/geion,

I a promontory in Troas, and a town of the same name, where Achilles was buried, now Yenishehr, Mel. 1, 18, 3; Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 124; Cic. Arch. 10, 24; id. Fam. 5, 12, 7; Liv. 44, 28, 6.—Hence, Sīgēus (collat. form Sīgēïa tellus, Ov. H. 1, 33: Sigeïa litora, id. M. 13, 3), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sigeum, Sigean: litora, Mel. 2, 7, 4; Ov. M. 12, 71: freta, Verg. A. 2, 312: campi, id. ib. 7, 294: profundum, Ov. M. 11, 197.
1 Poet. transf., Trojan: natum Sigeo in pulvere, i.e. in the Trojan war, Stat. Achill. 1, 84.—
2 Roman: colonus, Sil. 9, 203.

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