I.a light, a lamp: “pendentes lychni,” Lucr. 5, 295: “lux alia est solis et lychnorum,” Cic. Cael. 28, 67; Verg. A. 1, 726; Stat. Th. 1, 520.
lychnus (old Latinized form lucinus, Enn.; cf. Ritschl in Rhein. Mus. 10, p. 448 sq.), i, m., = λύχνος,