I.a country in Asia Minor, the capital of which was Sardis, the fabled original land of the Etruscans, Plin. 5, 29, 30, § 110; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 4; Cic. Fl. 27, 65; Liv. 38, 39, 16 et saep.—Hence,
1. Lydian: “regna,” of Gyges, Tib. 4, 1, 199: “aurifer amnis,” i. e. Pactolus, id. 3, 3, 29: “mitra,” Prop. 3, 15 (4, 16), 30: “pensa,” which Omphale gave to Hercules, Mart. 9, 66, 11: “nurus,” i. e. Omphale, Sen. Oet. 371: sil. Plin. 33, 13, 56, § 160: lapis, a touchstone (at first found only on the Tmolus), id. 33, 8, 43, § 126: “moduli,” id. 7, 56, 57, § 204.—
2. Transf.
a. Etruscan: “Lydius fluvius,” i. e. the Tiber, Verg. A. 2, 781: ripa, the right bank of the Tiber, Stat. S. 4, 4, 6: “stagna,” the Trasimene Lake, Sil. 9, 11.—（Lydii , false read. for ludii; v. ludius).—
b. Rhætian (because the Rhætians were descended from the Etruscans, the descendants of the Lydians): “undae,” the Lake Benacus, Cat. 31, 13.—
B. Lȳdus , a, um, adj., Lydian: “Lydus servus,” Cic. Fl. 27, 65: “puella,” i. e. Omphale, Ov. F. 2, 365: “Lydae pondera gazae (i. e. aurum Pactoli),” Stat. S. 5, 1, 60: “nurus,” Val. Fl. 4, 369.—
2. Transf., Etrurian, Etruscan.— As subst.: Lȳdi , ōrum, m.: “Lydorum manus,” a band of Etruscans, Verg. A. 9, 11.
