dōdōna, ae (-ē, es, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 228; Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 117), f., = Δωδώνη, a city in Epirus, famed on account of its very ancient oracle of Jupiter, situated in an oak-grove, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 95; Plin. l. l.; Prop. 2, 21, 3 (3, 14, 3 M.); Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 43; Luc. 6, 426 al.

— Meton. The sacred oak-grove of Dodona, Verg. G. 1, 149 Serv.

— The Dodonean priests, Nep. Lys. 3, 2.

— Derivv. Dōdō-naeus, a, um, adj., of Dodona, Dodonean: quercus, Cic. Att. 2, 4; cf. Ov. M. 7, 623: oraculum, Cic. Div. 1, 1 fin.: Juppiter, id. ib. 1, 34, 76; Mel. 2, 3, 5; Plin. 4, 1, 1, § 2: lebetas, Verg. A. 3, 466: agmina, Claud. Bell. Get. 136 al.

—* Dōdōnius, a, um, adj., of Dodona: quercus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 31.

— Dōdōnis, idis, f. adj., Dodonean: terra, Ov. M. 13, 716: quercus, Val. Fl. 1, 32: Thyene, i. e. one of the Hyades, as the nurses of Jupiter, Ov. F. 6, 711; these latter are called Dodonides Nymphae, Hyg. Fab. 182.

— Dō-dōnigena, ae, m. adj.: populi, i. e. nations living on acorns, Sid. Ep. 6, 12 med.