(adjective) : Abȳdus and Abȳdos, i (in MSS. also Aboedus), f. (m., Verg. G. 1, 207), = Ἄβυδος
* A town in Mysia, on the narrowest point of the Hellespont, opposite Sestos, now perh. Aidos or Avido, Mel. 1, 9, 1; Auct. Her. 4, 54, 68: ostrifer,Verg. G. 1, 207: mea,Ov. H. 18, 127; 19, 30 al.: Abydum oppidum,Plin. 5, 32, 40, § 141.
* Hence deriv.: Abȳdēnus, a, um, , belonging to Abydus: juvenis, i. e. Leander,Stat. S. 1, 2, 87; the same absol.: Abydenus,Ov. H. 18, 1.—In plur.: Abȳdēni, the inhabitants of Abydus, Liv. 31, 16.

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