I.the Bistones, a Thracian people south of Mount Rhodope, not far from Abdera, Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 42.—In the poets,
II. Derivv.
1. Bistonian: plăgae. Lucr. 5, 30.—
2. In gen., Thracian: “rupes,” Prop. 2 (3), 30, 36. “viri,” the Thracians, Ov. M. 13, 430: “aqua,” id. H. 2, 90: “sarissae,” id. P. 1, 3, 59: “Minerva (as goddess of the warlike Thracians),” id. Ib. 377: “Tereus,” Verg. Cul. 251: “tyrannus,” i. e. the Thracian king Diomedes, Luc. 2, 163: “aves, i. e. grues,” id. 3, 200: “turbo,” i. e. a violent north wind, id. 4, 767: “ensis Tydei,” Stat. Th. 2, 586: chelys, the lyre of the Thracian Orpheus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. praef. 2, 8 al.—Subst.: Bistŏ-nĭa , ae, f., = Βιστονια, Thrace: “Bistoniae magnus alumnus,” i. e. Orpheus, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—
B. Bistŏnis , ĭdis, adj. f., = Βιστονίς, pertaining to the Bistones, for Thracian: ora. Ov. H. 15 (16), 344: “terra,” id. P. 2, 9, 54: ales i. e. Procne, wife of the Thracian king Tereus, Sen. Agam. 670.—
2. Subst., a Thracian woman: “Bistonidum crines,” of the Thracian Bacchantes, Hor. C. 2, 19, 20; so Verg. Cir. 164, ubi v. Sillig.
