according to fable

Aesōn, ŏnis, m., = Aisôn, a Thessalian prince, brother of king Pelias, and father of Jason, who, according to fable, was in extreme old age transformed by the magic arts of Medea into a youth, Ov. M. 7, 2.— Whence,

Aesŏnĭdes, ae, patr. m., = Aisonidês, a male descendant of Æson, i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 164:

Phasias Aesoniden, Circe tenuisset Ulixem,

id. A. A. 2, 103:

mobilis Aesonide,

id. H. 6, 109 al. —

Aesŏnĭus, a, um, adj., Æsonian:

heros,

i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 156:

domus,

id. H. 12, 134.

Aesōn, ŏnis, m., = Aisôn, a Thessalian prince, brother of king Pelias, and father of Jason, who, according to fable, was in extreme old age transformed by the magic arts of Medea into a youth, Ov. M. 7, 2.— Whence,

Aesŏnĭdes, ae, patr. m., = Aisonidês, a male descendant of Æson, i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 164:

Phasias Aesoniden, Circe tenuisset Ulixem,

id. A. A. 2, 103:

mobilis Aesonide,

id. H. 6, 109 al. —

Aesŏnĭus, a, um, adj., Æsonian:

heros,

i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 156:

domus,

id. H. 12, 134.

Aesōn, ŏnis, m., = Aisôn, a Thessalian prince, brother of king Pelias, and father of Jason, who, according to fable, was in extreme old age transformed by the magic arts of Medea into a youth, Ov. M. 7, 2.— Whence,

Aesŏnĭdes, ae, patr. m., = Aisonidês, a male descendant of Æson, i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 164:

Phasias Aesoniden, Circe tenuisset Ulixem,

id. A. A. 2, 103:

mobilis Aesonide,

id. H. 6, 109 al. —

Aesŏnĭus, a, um, adj., Æsonian:

heros,

i. e. Jason, Ov. M. 7, 156:

domus,

id. H. 12, 134.

Eryx, ycis, m., = Erux, the name of a high mountain in the northwestern angle of Sicily, and of a city near it famous for its temple of Venus. According to fable, it was named from the Sicilian king Eryx, son of Butes and Venus, and brother of Aeneas; the mountain is now called S. Giuliano, Mel. 2, 7, 17; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 90; Ov. A. A. 2, 420; id. F. 4, 874; id. M. 2, 221; Verg. A. 1, 570; 5, 24; 419; 630; 772; Hyg. Fab. 260. The mountain is also called Erycus, i (mons), m., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8; 2, 2, 47; Tac. A. 4, 43 (and perh. in Flor. 2, 2, 12).—Deriv.,

Erycīnus, a, um, adj., Erycinian:

vertex,

Verg. A. 5, 757 Heyne: Venus, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 17; id. Verr. 2, 1, 10; 2, 2, 8; cf. Liv. 23, 30 and 31; 40, 34; Ov. F. 4, 871 sq.:

templa,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 160:

concha,

sacred to Venus, Prop. 3, 13, 6 (4, 12, 6 M.):

litora,

i. e. Sicilian, Verg. A. 10, 36; cf.

thapsos,

Luc. 9, 919.— Subst.: Erycīna, ae, f., i. e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 2, 33; Ov. M. 5, 363.— Erycīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of the city Eryx, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 91.

Eryx, ycis, m., = Erux, the name of a high mountain in the northwestern angle of Sicily, and of a city near it famous for its temple of Venus. According to fable, it was named from the Sicilian king Eryx, son of Butes and Venus, and brother of Aeneas; the mountain is now called S. Giuliano, Mel. 2, 7, 17; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 90; Ov. A. A. 2, 420; id. F. 4, 874; id. M. 2, 221; Verg. A. 1, 570; 5, 24; 419; 630; 772; Hyg. Fab. 260. The mountain is also called Erycus, i (mons), m., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8; 2, 2, 47; Tac. A. 4, 43 (and perh. in Flor. 2, 2, 12).—Deriv.,

Erycīnus, a, um, adj., Erycinian:

vertex,

Verg. A. 5, 757 Heyne: Venus, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 17; id. Verr. 2, 1, 10; 2, 2, 8; cf. Liv. 23, 30 and 31; 40, 34; Ov. F. 4, 871 sq.:

templa,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 160:

concha,

sacred to Venus, Prop. 3, 13, 6 (4, 12, 6 M.):

litora,

i. e. Sicilian, Verg. A. 10, 36; cf.

thapsos,

Luc. 9, 919.— Subst.: Erycīna, ae, f., i. e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 2, 33; Ov. M. 5, 363.— Erycīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of the city Eryx, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 91.

Eryx, ycis, m., = Erux, the name of a high mountain in the northwestern angle of Sicily, and of a city near it famous for its temple of Venus. According to fable, it was named from the Sicilian king Eryx, son of Butes and Venus, and brother of Aeneas; the mountain is now called S. Giuliano, Mel. 2, 7, 17; Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 90; Ov. A. A. 2, 420; id. F. 4, 874; id. M. 2, 221; Verg. A. 1, 570; 5, 24; 419; 630; 772; Hyg. Fab. 260. The mountain is also called Erycus, i (mons), m., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8; 2, 2, 47; Tac. A. 4, 43 (and perh. in Flor. 2, 2, 12).—Deriv.,

Erycīnus, a, um, adj., Erycinian:

vertex,

Verg. A. 5, 757 Heyne: Venus, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 17; id. Verr. 2, 1, 10; 2, 2, 8; cf. Liv. 23, 30 and 31; 40, 34; Ov. F. 4, 871 sq.:

templa,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 160:

concha,

sacred to Venus, Prop. 3, 13, 6 (4, 12, 6 M.):

litora,

i. e. Sicilian, Verg. A. 10, 36; cf.

thapsos,

Luc. 9, 919.— Subst.: Erycīna, ae, f., i. e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 2, 33; Ov. M. 5, 363.— Erycīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of the city Eryx, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 91.

अगस्ति [विन्ध्याख्यं अगं अस्यति; अस्-क्तिच् शकन्ध्वादि˚, Uṇ.4. 179, or अगं विन्ध्याचलं स्त्यायति +स्तभ्नाति, स्त्यै-क; or अगः कुम्भः तत्र स्त्यानः संहतः इत्यगस्त्यः]

1 'Pitcher-born,' N. of a celebrated Ṛiṣi or sage.

-2 N. of the star Canopus, of which Agastya is the regent.

-3 N. of a plant (बकवृक्ष) Sesbana (or Ӕschynomene) Grandiflora [Mar. रुईमंदार]. [The sage Agastya is a very reputed personage in Hindu mythology. In the Ṛigveda he and Vasiṣṭha are said to be the off-springs of Mitra and Varuṇa, whose seed fell from them at the sight of the lovely nymph Urvaśī at a sacrificial session. Part of the seed fell into a jar and part into water; from the former arose Agastya, who is, therefore, called Kumbhayoni, Kumbhajanman, Ghaṭodbhava, Kalaśayoni &c; from the latter Vasiṣṭha. From his parentage Agastya is also called Maitrāvaruṇi, Aurvaśeya, and, as he was very small when he was born, he is also called Mānya. He is represented to have humbled the Vindhya mountains by making them prostrate themselves before him when they tried to rise higher and higher till they wellnigh occupied the sun's disc and obstructed his path. See Vindhya. (This fable is supposed by some, to typify the progress of the Āryas towards the south in their conquest and civilization of India, the humbling of the mountain standing meta- phorically for the removal of physical obstacles in their way). He is also known by the names of Pītābdhi, Samudra-chuluka &c.; from another fable according to which he drank up the ocean because it had offended him and because he wished to help Indra and the gods in their wars with a class of demons called Kāleyas who had hid themselves in the waters and oppressed the three worlds in various ways. His wife was Lopāmudrā. She was also called Kauṣītakī and Varapradā. She bore him two sons, Dṛḍhāsya and Dṛḍhāsyu. In the Rāmāyaṇa Agastya plays a distinguished part. He dwelt in a hermitage on mount Kunjara to the south of the Vindhya and was chief of the hermits of the south. He kept under control the evil spirits who infested the south and a legend relates how he once ate up a Rākṣasa named Vātāpi, who had assumed the form of a ram, and destroyed by a flash of his eye the Rākṣasa's brother who attempted to avenge him. In the course of his wandering Rāma with his wife and brother came to the hermitge of Agastya who received him with the greatest kindness and became his friend, adviser and protector. He gave Rāma the bow of Viṣṇu and accompanied him to Ayodhyā when he was restored to his kingdom after his exile of 14 years. The superhuman power which the sage possessed, is also represented by another legend, according to which he turned king Nahuṣa into a serpent and afterwards restored him to his proper form. In the south he is usually regarded as the first teacher of science and literature to the primitive Dravidian tribes, and his era is placed by Dr. Caldwell in the 7th or 6th century B.C. The Purāṇas represent Agastya as the son of Pulastya (the sage from whom the Rākṣsas sprang) and Havirbhuvā the daughter of Kardama. Several 'hymn-seers' are mentioned in his family, such as his two sons, Indra- bāhu, Mayobhuva and Mahendra, also others who served to perpetuate the family. The sage is represented as a great philosopher, benevolent and kind-hearted, unsurpassed in the science of archery and to have taken a principal part in the colonization of the south; निर्जितासि मया भद्रे शत्रुहस्तादमर्षिणा । अगस्त्येन दुराधर्षा मुनिना दक्षिणेव .दिक् ॥ Rām; अगस्त्याचरितामाशाम् R.4.44; cf. also; अगस्त्यो दक्षिणामाशामाश्रित्य नभसिः स्थितः । वरुणस्यात्मजो योगी विन्ध्यवातापिमर्दनः ॥ and R.6.61; Mv.7.14.] अगस्तितुल्या हि घृताब्धिशोषणे । Udbhaṭa.

1 fiction, make-believe, invention.

El bus empezó a andar The bus got going.

2 fictitious tale, figment, fable, fabrication.

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► nombre femenino

1 fiction

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1. SF

1) (Literat) fiction

2) (=invención) fiction

3) (=mentira) fabrication

ADJ INV fictitious, make-believe

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femenino (Lit) fiction; ( invención) fiction

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= fiction.

Nota: Obras literarias en prosa que presentan caracteres y acontecimientos imaginados por el autor con objeto de entretener al lector.

Ex. It is widely recognised that it is difficult and unhelpful to categorise fiction according to a subject classification = Es un hecho ampliamente reconocido la dificultad y la poca utilidad de clasificar la literatura narrativa de acuerdo con una clasificación por materias.

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* ciencia ficción = science fiction, sci-fi.

* ficción infantil = children's fiction.

* ficción literaria = literary fiction.

* ficción narrativa = fiction.

* ficción para adolescentes = young adult fiction.

* ficción para adultos = adult fiction.

* literatura de ficción = imaginative literature, imaginative writing.

* literatura de no ficción = subject literature.

* llevar a la ficción = fictionalise [fictionalize, -USA].

* novela de ciencia ficción = science fiction novel.

* obras de ficción = fiction.

* obras de no ficción = non-fiction [nonfiction].

* personaje de ficción = fictional character.

* separar la realidad de la ficción = distinguish + fact from fiction.

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femenino (Lit) fiction; ( invención) fiction

* * *

= fiction.

Nota: Obras literarias en prosa que presentan caracteres y acontecimientos imaginados por el autor con objeto de entretener al lector.

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1 ( Lit) fiction

2 (invención) fiction

lo de su herencia es pura ficción all that talk about his inheritance is a complete fabrication o is pure fiction

science fiction

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ficción nf

1. [invención] fiction

2. [simulación] pretence, make-believe

3. [género literario] fiction;

literatura de ficción fiction

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f fiction

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ficción nf, pl ficciones

1) : fiction

2) : fabrication, lie

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ficción n fiction

cŏrō̆na (in the ante-Aug. per. sometimes written chorona, acc. to Quint. 1, 5, 20; cf. the letter C), ae, f., = korônê, a garland, chaplet, wreath.

Lit., of natural or artificial flowers, etc. (very freq. used for personal adornment at festivals, when sacrificing, or as a gift for friends, etc., for ornamenting the images of the gods, edifices, victims, the dead, etc.), Lucr. 5, 1399; Lex XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 21, 3, 5, § 7; Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 16; Cic. Fl. 31, 75; id. Leg. 2, 24, 60; Liv. 23, 11, 5; 38, 14, 5; Curt. 4, 2, 2; 4, 4, 5; Hor. C. 1, 26, 8; id. Ep. 2, 2, 96; Tac. A. 2, 57; 15, 12; 16, 4; id. H. 2, 55 et saep.:

coronas bibere,

i. e. to throw into the cup leaves plucked from the garlands, Plin. 21, 3, 9, § 12. Vid. the artt. sacerdotalis, funebris, sepulchralis, convivialis, nuptialis, natalitia, Etrusca, pactilis, plectilis, sutilis, tonsa or tonsilis, radiata, and pampinea.— Poet.:

perenni fronde corona,

i. e. immortal, poetic renown, Lucr. 1, 119.—As emblem of royalty, a crown:

regni corona = diadema,

Verg. A. 8, 505. —Concerning the different kinds of garlands or crowns given to soldiers as a prize of bravery (castrensis or vallaris, civica, muralis, navalis or rostrata, obsidionalis, triumphalis, oleagina, etc.), v. Gell. 5, 6; Dict. of Antiq.; and the artt. castrensis, civicus, muralis, etc.—

Esp.: corona fidei, the crown of martyrdom (eccl. Lat.), Cypr. Ep. 58; 60; Lact. Epit. 72, 23;

and corona alone,

Lact. 4, 25, 10; id. Mort. Pers. 16, 11.—

Sub coronā vendere, t. t. of the lang. of business, to sell captives as slaves (since they were crowned with chaplets; cf. Caelius Sabinus ap. Gell. 7, 4, 3;

and corono, I.),

Caes. B. G. 3, 16; Liv. 42, 63, 12; so,

sub coronā venire,

id. 9, 42, 8; 38, 29, 11; 41, 11, 8:

sub coronā venundari,

Tac. A. 13, 39; id. H. 1, 68:

sub coronā emere,

Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4.—

As a constellation.

The northern crown (according to the fable, the crown of Ariadne transferred to heaven;

v. Ariadna),

Cic. Arat. 351 sq.; Caes. German. Arat. 71;

called Gnosia stella Coronae,

Verg. G. 1, 222:

Cressa Corona,

Ov. A. A. 1, 558:

Ariadnea Corona,

Manil. 5, 21; cf. also Ov. M. 8, 181; Plin. 18, 26, 60, § 224 al.—

The southern crown, Caes. German. Arat. 391.—

Meton., of objects in the form of a crown.

Most freq., a circle of men, an assembly, crowd, multitude (esp. of judicial assemblies), Cic. Fl. 28, 69; id. Phil. 2, 44, 112; id. Mil. 1, 1; id. Fin. 2, 22, 74; Quint. 12, 10, 74; Suet. Aug. 93 al.; Cat. 53, 1; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 53; Ov. M. 13, 1 al.—Hence,

Milit. t. t., the besiegers round a hostile place, the line of siege or circumvallation, Caes. B. G. 7, 72; Liv. 10, 43, 1; 23, 44, 3; Curt. 4, 6, 10 al.—Also, a circle of men for the defence of a place, Liv. 4, 19, 8.—

In arch., the cornice, Vitr. 5, 2; Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 183.—

In the agrimensores, an elevated ridge of land as a boundary line, Cato, R. R. 6, 3; Front. Col. 114 and 131 Goes.—

The hairy crown over the horse's hoof, Col. 6, 29, 3; Veg. Art. Vet. 1, 13, 1.—

Montium, a circular ridge of mountains, Plin. 6, 20, 23, [p. 472] § 73.—

The halo round the sun (for the Gr. halôs), Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 1.

fornācālis, e, adj. [fornax], of or belonging to ovens.

Adj.: dea, i. e. the goddess Fornax (v. fornax, II.), Ov. F. 6, 314.—

Subst.: Fornācālĭa, ium, n., the festival of the goddess Fornax, instituted, according to the fable, by Numa; the oven or baking festival, Plin. 18, 2, 2, § 8; Ov. F. 2, 527; Lact. 1, 20; Paul. ex Fest. p. 83 and 93 Müll.

fornācālis, e, adj. [fornax], of or belonging to ovens.

Adj.: dea, i. e. the goddess Fornax (v. fornax, II.), Ov. F. 6, 314.—

Subst.: Fornācālĭa, ium, n., the festival of the goddess Fornax, instituted, according to the fable, by Numa; the oven or baking festival, Plin. 18, 2, 2, § 8; Ov. F. 2, 527; Lact. 1, 20; Paul. ex Fest. p. 83 and 93 Müll.

gallus, i, m. [kindr. to Sanscr. grī, cry; Gr. gêrus, speech; Lat. garrio, garrulus; Engl. call], a cock, dunghill-cock, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4; 3, 9, 3; Cic. Div. 2, 26, 56 sq.; Juv. 13, 233; Hor. S. 1, 1, 10; Mart. 9, 69, 3; Plin. 10, 21, 25, § 50:

ad cantum galli secundi,

at second cock-crow, Juv. 9, 107; cf. Vulg. Marc. 14, 30; 68; 72.—Prov.:

gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest,

i. e. every man is cock of his own dunghill, Sen. Apocol. 402.

Gallus, i, m., a Gaul; and adj. Gallic; v. Galli, I. and II. D.

Gallus, i, m., = Gallos Strab., a tributary of the Sagaris of Phrygia and Bithynia, whose water, according to the fable, made those who drank it mad, now Kadsha Su or Gökssu, Ov. F. 4, 364; Plin. 5, 32, 42, § 147; 6, 1, 1, § 4; 31, 2, 5, § 9; Claud. ap. Ruf. 2, 263.—

Derivv.

Galli, ōrum, m., the priests of Cybele, so called because of their raving, Ov. F. 4, 361 sq.; Plin. 5, 32, 42, § 146; 11, 49, 109, § 261; 35, 12, 46, § 165; Paul. ex Fest. p. 95 Müll.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 121.—In sing.: Gallus, i, m., a priest of Cybele, Mart. 3, 81; 11, 74; cf. Quint. 7, 9, 2:

resupinati cessantia tympana Galli,

Juv. 8, 176.—And satirically (on account of their emasculated condition), in the fem.: Gallae, ārum, Cat. 63, 12, and 34.—

Gallĭcus, a, um, adj.

Of or belonging to the river Gallus, poet. i. q. Phrygian, Trojan:

miles,

Prop. 2, 13. 48 (3, 5, 32 M.).—

(Acc. to II. A., of or belonging to the priests of Cybele; hence, transf.) Of or belonging to the priests of Isis, Gallic:

turma,

the troop of the priests of Isis, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 18.

Gallus, i, m., a Roman surname in the gens Cornelia, Aquilia, Sulpicia, etc. So in partic. C. Cornelius Gallus, of Forum Julii, a Roman poet, a friend of Virgil, Verg. E. 10; Ov. Am. 3, 9, 64; Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 5.

gallus, i, m. [kindr. to Sanscr. grī, cry; Gr. gêrus, speech; Lat. garrio, garrulus; Engl. call], a cock, dunghill-cock, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 4; 3, 9, 3; Cic. Div. 2, 26, 56 sq.; Juv. 13, 233; Hor. S. 1, 1, 10; Mart. 9, 69, 3; Plin. 10, 21, 25, § 50:

ad cantum galli secundi,

at second cock-crow, Juv. 9, 107; cf. Vulg. Marc. 14, 30; 68; 72.—Prov.:

gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest,

i. e. every man is cock of his own dunghill, Sen. Apocol. 402.

Gallus, i, m., a Gaul; and adj. Gallic; v. Galli, I. and II. D.

Gallus, i, m., = Gallos Strab., a tributary of the Sagaris of Phrygia and Bithynia, whose water, according to the fable, made those who drank it mad, now Kadsha Su or Gökssu, Ov. F. 4, 364; Plin. 5, 32, 42, § 147; 6, 1, 1, § 4; 31, 2, 5, § 9; Claud. ap. Ruf. 2, 263.—

Derivv.

Galli, ōrum, m., the priests of Cybele, so called because of their raving, Ov. F. 4, 361 sq.; Plin. 5, 32, 42, § 146; 11, 49, 109, § 261; 35, 12, 46, § 165; Paul. ex Fest. p. 95 Müll.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 121.—In sing.: Gallus, i, m., a priest of Cybele, Mart. 3, 81; 11, 74; cf. Quint. 7, 9, 2:

resupinati cessantia tympana Galli,

Juv. 8, 176.—And satirically (on account of their emasculated condition), in the fem.: Gallae, ārum, Cat. 63, 12, and 34.—

Gallĭcus, a, um, adj.

Of or belonging to the river Gallus, poet. i. q. Phrygian, Trojan:

miles,

Prop. 2, 13. 48 (3, 5, 32 M.).—

(Acc. to II. A., of or belonging to the priests of Cybele; hence, transf.) Of or belonging to the priests of Isis, Gallic:

turma,

the troop of the priests of Isis, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 18.

Gallus, i, m., a Roman surname in the gens Cornelia, Aquilia, Sulpicia, etc. So in partic. C. Cornelius Gallus, of Forum Julii, a Roman poet, a friend of Virgil, Verg. E. 10; Ov. Am. 3, 9, 64; Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 5.

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros ( - ag-rus), gri, m., = Meleagros, son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = Meleagrios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros ( - ag-rus), gri, m., = Meleagros, son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = Meleagrios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros ( - ag-rus), gri, m., = Meleagros, son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = Meleagrios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros ( - ag-rus), gri, m., = Meleagros, son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = Meleagrios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros ( - ag-rus), gri, m., = Meleagros, son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = Meleagrios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

Mĕlĕăger and Mĕlĕăgros ( - ag-rus), gri, m., = Meleagros, son of the Calydonian king Œneus and Althæa, one of the combatants at the Calydonian boar-hunt. His life depended on the preservation of an extinguished brand; this his mother burned, out of revenge for the death of her brothers who had fallen by his hand, and he expired, Ov. M. 8, 299 sq.; id. H. 9, 151; Val. Fl. 1, 435; Hyg. Fab. 171 sq.; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 306.—Hence,

Mĕlĕāgrēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Meleager, Luc. 6, 365.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭdes, um, f.

The sisters of Meleager, who, according to the fable, bitterly lamented his death, and were changed into birds called after his name, Hyg. Fab. 174; Ov. M. 8, 534 sq.—

A kind of fowls, Guinea-hens, the same as Gallinae Africanae, or a variety of them, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 18; Plin. 10, 26, 38, § 74.—

Mĕlĕāgrĭus, a, um, adj., = Meleagrios, of or belonging to Meleager, Meleagrian, Stat. Th. 4, 103.

Symplēgădes, um, f., = Sumplêgades (that strike together).

Two rocky islands in the Euxine that, according to the fable, floated about dashing against and rebounding from each other, until at length they became fixed on the passage of the Argo between them, Mel. 2, 7, 11; Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 92; 6, 12, 13, § 32; Ov. M. 15, 338; Hyg. Fab. 19.—In sing. Symplegas, Val. Fl. 4, 221; Luc. 2, 718; gen. Symplegados, Val. Fl. 5, 300; acc. Symplegada, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 30.—

Transf.: symplēgas, ădis, f.; as an appellative, a joining together, cohesion:

praebente algam densi symplegade limi,

Rutil. Itin. 1, 461.—Of the buttocks, Mart. 11, 99, 5; Aus. Epigr. 108, 8.