Definition of Dorius
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LNS
Dōrius, Dōria, Dōrium
Dorice
adjective (2-1-2)
  1. Doric
  2. the Dorians
Abbreviations
Dōres, um, m. (Gr. gen. pl. Dorieon, Vitr. 4, 1, 5), Δωριεῖς, the Dorians, Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 8; id. Fl. 27, 64; their progenitor, Dōrus, i, m., son of Hellen, Vitr. 4, 1; or of Neptune, acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 2, 27

— Derivv. Dōricus, a, um, adj., Doric: gens, Plin. 6, 2, 2, § 7: genus (architecturae), Vitr. 4, 6: aedes, id. ib.: symmetria, id. ib.: castra, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 34: dicta, i. e. in the Doric dialect, Quint. 8, 3, 59 (al. adv. Dōrice dicta; so Suet. Tib. 56: Dorice Rhodii loquuntur); hence, also: Dorici, ōrum, m., those who speak Doric, Gell. 2, 26, 10.

— Meton. for Grecian, Greek: castra, Verg. A. 2, 27; 6, 88; Prop. 2, 8, 32 (2, 8, b. 16, M.): nox, Val. Fl. 2, 573: ignes, Sen. Agm. 611: Ancon, Juv. 4, 40.

Dōri-us, a, um, adj., Doric: carmen, Hor. Epod. 9, 6; cf. moduli, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 204: phthongus, id. 2, 23, 20, § 84; and subst., Dōri-um, ii, n.: tibicen Dorium canebat bellicosum, App. M. 10, p. 254, 23.

— Dōri-enses, ium, m., the Dorians, Just. 2, 6, 16.

— Dōris, idis, adj. fem., Doric: dialectos, Suet. Tib. 56: Malea, Luc. 9, 36: tellus, i. e. Sicily, Sen. Herc. Fur. 81.

— Subst. A country in Hellas, Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 7, 13, § 28; in Asia Minor, id. 5, 27, 29, § 103 sq.

— A daughter of Oceanus, wife of Nereus, and mother of fifty seanymphs, Ov. M. 2, 11; 269; Prop. 1, 17, 25; Hyg. Fab. praef.

—Also, wife of Dionysius I., Tyrant of Syracuse, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59; Val. Max. 9, 13, ext. 1.

—Also, the name of a Greek girl, Juv. 3, 94; Prop. 4, 7, 72.

— Meton., the sea, Verg. E. 10, 5; Ov. F. 4, 678; Stat. Silv. 3, 2, 89.

— A plant, called also pseudoanchusa and echis, Plin. 22, 20, 24, § 50.
 
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