aenum

1.

Aenus or -os, i, f., = Ainos, a city of Thrace, south-east of the Palus Stentoris, through which one of the mouths of the Hebrus falls into the sea, now Enos, Mel. 2, 2, 8; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 43; Cic. Fl. 14; Liv. 31, 16 4.—Hence,

II.

Aenĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Ænus, Liv. 37, 33; 38, 41; 45, 27. [p. 56]

2.

Aenus, i, m., the river Inn, Tac. H. 3, 5.

3.

ăēnus (trisyl.; less freq. ăhēn- ), a, um, adj. [aes], of copper or bronze (only poet. for aheneus; yet Hor. uses the latter oftener than the former).

I.

Lit.: signa, the bronze images of the gods, Lucr 1, 316:

ahënis in scaphiis,

id. 6, 1045, falcīs, id. 5, 1293; cf. Verg. A. 4, 513;

lux, i. e. armorum aënorum,

id. ib. 2, 470:

crateres,

id. ib. 9, 165.— Hence, ăēnum (sc. vas), a bronze vessel:

litore aëna locant,

Verg. A. 1, 213; so Ov. M. 6, 645, Juv. 15, 81 al., of the bronze vessels in which the purple color was prepared, Ov. F 3, 822; Sen. Herc. Oet. 663; Stat. S. 1, 2, 151 (hence, aenulum).—

II.

Trop.

A.

Firm, invincible (cf. adamantinus):

manus,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 18.—

B.

Hard, rigorous, inexorable:

corda,

Stat. Th. 3, 380.