I. A female descendant of Minos. So his daughter Ariadne, Ov. M. 8, 174; Prop. 3, 19, 27: “grex magis, an regnum Minoida sollicitat?” i. e. Pasiphaë, the wife of Minos, Aus. Idyll. 12, 7.—
II. A name of the Isle of Paros, Plin. 4, 12, 22, § 67.
Mīnōis , ĭdis, f., = Μινωἷς.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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