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LNS

Cimmerius, Cimmeriī

Cimmerii

Κιμμέριοι

Mostly Plural

noun (m., 2^nd declension)

A Thracian people in the present Crimea, on both sides of the Dnieper, whose chief town was

Abbreviations

Cimmerii, ōrum (gen. Cimmeriūm, Val. Fl. 3, 399; Cimmeriōn, Tib. 4, 1, 64), m., = Κιμμέριοι. A Thracian people in the present Crimea, on both sides of the Dnieper, whose chief town was Cimmerium, Mel. 1, 19, 15; Plin. 6, 6, 5, § 17; 6, 13, 14, § 35.

— Hence, Adj. Cimmerius, a, um, Cimmerian: Bosporus, Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 77: litus, Ov. P. 4, 10, 1.

— Cimmericus, a, um, Cimmerian: oppida, Mel. 2, 1, 3.

— A fabulous people supposed to have dwelt in caves, between Baiae and Cumae, Fest. p. 43, 4 sq.; cf. Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 61; Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 61; Sil. 12, 132; perpetual darkness prevailed among them, Tib. 4, 1, 64; Val. Fl. 3, 398; here Somnus had his abode, Ov. M. 11, 592 sq.

—Poet., the Lower World: Cimmerii lacus, Tib. 3, 5, 24; cf. Verg. Cul. 230; v. Lidd. and Scott, under Κιμμέριοι.