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Phlegra
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Lewis Short
(adj.adj.) : Phlegra, ae, f., = Φλέγρα
* A country of Macedonia, afterwards called Pallene, where the giants are fabled to have been struck with lightning when fighting with the gods, Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 36; Stat. Th. 2, 595; Val. Fl. 1, 564; Sen. Herc. Fur. 444.— As adj.: Phlegra giganteo sparsa est quo sanguine tellus,Verg. Cul. 28.—Hence
* Phlegraeus, a, um, adj., Phlegroean: Phlegraei campi,Ov. M. 10, 151: tumultus,Prop. 2, 1, 39: castra,Stat. Achill. 1, 484: pugnae,Val. Fl. 5, 693: victoria,Mart. 8, 78, 1.
* Transf.
* Campi, a plain abounding in sulphur, between Puteoli and Naples, the modern Solfatara, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 61; Sil. 8, 540: vertex,i. e. the volcano of Vesuvius,Sil. 8, 657.
* Poet., of a bloody battle: campus,i. e. Pharsalus,Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 37.
* A country of Macedonia, afterwards called Pallene, where the giants are fabled to have been struck with lightning when fighting with the gods, Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 36; Stat. Th. 2, 595; Val. Fl. 1, 564; Sen. Herc. Fur. 444.— As adj.: Phlegra giganteo sparsa est quo sanguine tellus,Verg. Cul. 28.—Hence
* Phlegraeus, a, um, adj., Phlegroean: Phlegraei campi,Ov. M. 10, 151: tumultus,Prop. 2, 1, 39: castra,Stat. Achill. 1, 484: pugnae,Val. Fl. 5, 693: victoria,Mart. 8, 78, 1.
* Transf.
* Campi, a plain abounding in sulphur, between Puteoli and Naples, the modern Solfatara, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 61; Sil. 8, 540: vertex,i. e. the volcano of Vesuvius,Sil. 8, 657.
* Poet., of a bloody battle: campus,i. e. Pharsalus,Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 37.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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