Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.a poetical name for Troja, the city of Ilium, Troy, Verg. A. 1, 68; 5, 261; Hor. C. 1, 15, 33; Ov. M. 6, 95; 13, 408; Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24 et saep.—Called also Īlĭos , i, f., acc. to the Gr. Ἴλιος, Hor. C. 4, 9, 18; id. Epod. 14, 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 363; id. M. 14, 467.—Also a later Ilium, built upon the coast, Liv. 35, 43, 3; 37, 9, 7.—

II. Derivv.

A. Īlĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ilium, Ilian, Trojan: “tellus,” Verg. A. 9, 285: “res,” id. ib. 1, 268: “matres,” Hor. Epod. 17, 11: “turmae,” id. Carm. Sec. 37.—Subst.: Īlĭi , ōrum, m., the Trojans, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 27.—

B. Īlĭăcus , a, um, adj., the same: “orae,” Verg. A. 2, 117: “classis,” id. ib. 5, 607: “fata,” id. ib. 3, 182: “Penates,” id. ib. 3, 603: “cineres,” id. ib. 2, 431: “amores,” i. e. Paris, Mart. 12, 52, 9: “hospes Didus,” i. e. Æneas, Sil. 8, 50: “Vesta,” worshipped at Troy, Ov. F. 6, 227; “hence, Alba, where also Vesta was worshipped,” Luc. 5, 400: carmen, i. e. Homer's Iliad, Hor. A. P. 129; cf.: “Macer,” a poet who wrote on the Trojan war, Ov. P. 4, 16, 6: “dextra,” i. e. Ganymede's, Stat. S. 4, 2, 11: “mons,” i. e. Phrygian marble, id. ib. 27: “Iliacoque jugum memorabile remo,” i. e. the promontory of Misenum, where Misenus, a follower of Æneas, was drowned, id. ib. 3, 5, 98: muri, i. e. of Rome, as founded by descendants of the Trojan Æneas, Sil. 10, 387; “hence, also, cuspis,” of the consul Flaminius, id. 5, 595.—Prov.: “Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra,” Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 16.—

C. Īlĭenses , ium, m., inhabitants of Ilium, Ilians, Suet. Tib. 52; id. Claud. 25; id. Ner. 7.—

D. Īlĭădes , ae, m., the Trojan, i. e. Ganymede, Ov. M. 10, 160.—

E. Īlĭas , ădis, f.

1. The Trojan woman, i. e. Helen, Ov. Tr. 2, 371.—In plur.: Īlĭădes , um, Trojan women or girls, Verg. A. 3, 65; 2, 580.—

2. The celebrated epic poem that describes the Trojan war, the Iliad, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 66; Ov. A. A. 3, 414. —On account of its great extent, used fig. to represent a great quantity or number, an Iliad, a whole Iliad, Ov. P. 2, 7, 33; cf. written as Greek: tanta malorum impendet Ἰλιάς, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 3; and in plur.: “tunc vero longas condimus Iliadas,” Prop. 2, 1, 14.