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,
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.