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Arcădĭa , ae, f., = Ἀρκαδία,
I.a mountainous province in the centre of the Peloponnesus, the Greek Switzerland, Plin. 4, 6, 10, § 20; Verg. E. 4, 58; Ov. M. 2, 405; 9, 192 al.—Hence, derivv.
A. Arcădĭcus , a, um, adj., = Ἀρκαδικός, Arcadian: “asinus,Plaut. As. 2, 2, 67; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 14; cf. Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 167; Pers. 3, 9.—Arcadicus juvenis for a simpleton (since the Arcadians, as mostly mountaineers, were considered as a simple, uncultivated people), Juv. 7, 160.—
B. Arcădĭus , a, um, adj., = Ἀρκάδιος, Arcadian: Arcadius sus, the Arcadian boar, * Lucr. 5, 25: “dea,” i. e. Carmenta, who came from Arcadia to Italy, Ov. F. 1, 462: “virgo,” i. e. the nymph Arethusa, id. Am. 3, 6, 30: “deus,” i. e. Pan, Prop. 1, 18, 20: “rupes,id. 1, 1, 14: “agri,id. 3, 24, 23: “sidus,” i. e. the Great Bear, Sen. Oedip. 476: virga, the wand of Mercury (who was born upon the Arcadian mountain Cyllene, and worshipped there), Stat. Th. 2, 70: “galerus,the helmet of Mercury, id. ib. 7, 39.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.405
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 2.2
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.25
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.20
    • Seneca, Oedipus, 476
    • Persius, Saturae, 3
    • Statius, Thebias, 2
    • Ovid, Fasti, 1
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