A. Lit., the Black Sea, called in full Pontus Euxinus, Mel. 1, 1, 5; 1, 3, 1; Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 75; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 129; id. Tusc. 1, 20, 45; 1, 39, 94; Val. Fl. 8, 180 al.—
B. Transf., the region about the Black Sea: “Medea ex eodem Ponto profugisse,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22; Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 1.—
2. In partic., Pontus, a district in Asia Minor, between Bithynia and Armenia, the kingdom of Mithridates, afterwards a Roman province, Verg. G. 1, 58; Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 6; 2, 19, 5; id. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7; Vell. 2, 40, 1; Flor. 3, 6, 8 al.—Hence, Pontĭcus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pontus, Pontic: “mare,” Liv. 40, 21; Mel. 2, 1, 5; Flor. 3, 5, 18: “terra,” Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 94: “populi,” Mel. 1, 2, 6: “pinus,” Hor. C. 1, 14, 11: “absinthium,” Col. 12, 35: “nuces,” a kind of hazel-nuts, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 88: “mures,” ermines, id. 8, 37, 55, § 132; 10, 73, 93, § 200: “serpens,” the dragon that watched the golden fleece, Juv. 14, 114: “radix,” rhubarb, Cels. 5, 23 fin.; “also called Rha,” Amm. 22, 8, 28: “Ponticus genere,” Vulg. Act. 18, 2.— As subst.
