Amāzon | Amāzŏnĭ-cus, a, um | Amāzŏ-nis, ĭdis | Amāzŏnĭus, a, um (noun F.f) : Ἀμαζών, plur. Amazones [a Scythian word of dub. signif.; acc. to an etymological fancy, as if from ἀ-μαζός, without breast; Just. 2, 4, relates that their right breast was removed in childhood, to enable them to handle the bow more conveniently]
* An Amazon; and plur., Amazons, warlike women, who dwelt on the river Thermodon.
* Lit.: Threiciae Amazones,Verg. A. 11, 659: exsultat Amazon,id. ib. 11, 648: Amazon Mavortia,Val. Fl. 5, 89: peltata,Sen. Agam. 218 al.
* Metaph., a heroine of love, Ov. A. A. 2, 743; 3, 1.—Hence
* Amazonian, Mel.1, 19, 13; Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43; Suet. Ner. 44.
* = Amazon, an Amazon: Amazonidum agmina,Verg. A. 1, 490: Amazonidum gens,Val. Fl. 4, 602: Amazonidum turba,Prop. 4, 13, 13.—Also, title of a poem composed by a poet named Marsus, Mart. 4, 29, 8.
* Poet. for Amazonicus, Amazonian: securis,Hor. C. 4, 4, 20, and Ov. P. 3, 1, 95: genus,Sen. Hippol. 237: vir Amazonius, i. e. Hippolytus, the son of an Amazon by Theseus, Ov. H. 4, 2.

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