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Ămāzon , ŏnis, 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],
I.an Amazon; and plur., Amazons, warlike women, who dwelt on the river Thermodon.
I. Lit.: “Threiciae Amazones,Verg. A. 11, 659: “exsultat Amazon,id. ib. 11, 648: “Amazon Mavortia,Val. Fl. 5, 89: “peltata,Sen. Agam. 218 al.
II. Metaph., a heroine of love, Ov. A. A. 2, 743; 3, 1.—Hence,
a. Ămāzŏnĭ-cus , a, um, Amazonian, Mel.1, 19, 13; Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43; Suet. Ner. 44.—
b. Ămāzŏ-nis , ĭdis, f., = 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.—
c. Ămāzŏnĭus , a, um, 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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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.659
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.490
    • Suetonius, Nero, 44
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.43
    • Seneca, Agamemnon, 218
    • Seneca, Phaedra, 237
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 4.602
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 5.89
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 3.1
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