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Tŏmis

Tŏmis · f

a town of Mœsia

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What it meant

Tŏmis — Lewis & Short

Tŏmis, is, f., or Tŏmi, ōrum, m., = *to/mis or *to/moi,

I a town of Mœsia, on the Pontus Euxinus, famous as the place to which Ovid was banished.—Form Tomis, Ov. P. 4, 14, 59; id. Tr. 3, 9, 33.—Form Tŏmi, ōrum, m., Stat. S. 1, 2, 254; Claud. Epith. Pall. et Celer. 70; Sid. Carm. 23, 159.—And after the Greek orthog., Tŏmoe, Mel. 2, 2, 5. — Hence,

A Tŏmītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Tomis, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 85.—

B Tŏmītānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tomis, Tomitan: terra, Ov. P. 1, 1, 1: harena, id. ib. 1, 6, 49: nurus, id. ib. 3, 8, 10.

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