Euboea

Euboea, ae, f., = Euboia, an island in the Aegean Sea, separated from Boeotia by Euripus, now Negroponte, Mel. 2, 7, 9; Plin. 4, 12, 21, § 63; Ov. M. 13, 660 al.—

II.

Derivv.

A.

Eubŏĭcus, a, um, adj., Euboean:

litus,

Prop. 2, 26, 38 (3, 22, 18 M.); cf.

cautes,

i. e. the promontory Caphareus, Verg. A. 11, 260:

sinus,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 114:

undae,

Ov. M. 9, 218:

Anthedon,

in Boeotia, opposite Euboea, id. 7, 232; 13, 905; cf.:

cultor aquarum,

i. e. Glaucus, from Anthedon, id. ib. 14, 4:

urbs,

i. e. Cumae, as a colony of Euboean Chalcidians, id. ib. 14, 155; cf.:

orae Cumarum,

Verg. A. 6, 2;

hence, Sibylla,

the Cumaean Sibyl, Mart. 9, 30:

carmen,

of the Cumaean Sibyl, Ov. F. 4, 257:

pulveris anni,

the great age of the Sibyl, Stat. S. 1, 4, 126; cf. Ov. M. 14, 136: talentum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 78, 14 Müll.—

B.

Euboeüs, a, um, adj., Euboean:

plebes,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 137.—

C.

Eubŏïs, ĭdis, f., adj., the same:

ora,

Stat. Ach. 1, 414:

tellus,

i. e. the region about Cumae, id. S. 1, 2, 263.