Amazon

Ămāzon, ŏnis, f., = Amazôn, plur. Amazones [a Scythian word of dub. signif.; acc. to an etymological fancy, as if from a-mazos, without breast; Just. 2, 4, relates that their right breast was removed in childhood, to enable them to handle the bow more conveniently], an Amazon; and plur., Amazons, warlike women, who dwelt on the river Thermodon.

I.

Lit.:

Threiciae Amazones,

Verg. A. 11, 659:

exsultat Amazon,

id. ib. 11, 648:

Amazon Mavortia,

Val. Fl. 5, 89:

peltata,

Sen. Agam. 218 al. —

II.

Metaph., a heroine of love, Ov. A. A. 2, 743; 3, 1.—Hence,

a.

Ămāzŏnĭ-cus, a, um, Amazonian, Mel.1, 19, 13; Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43; Suet. Ner. 44.—

b.

Ămāzŏ-nis, ĭdis, f., = Amazon, an Amazon:

Amazonidum agmina,

Verg. A. 1, 490:

Amazonidum gens,

Val. Fl. 4, 602:

Amazonidum turba,

Prop. 4, 13, 13.—Also, title of a poem composed by a poet named Marsus, Mart. 4, 29, 8.—

c.

Ămāzŏnĭus, a, um, poet. for Amazonicus, Amazonian:

securis,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 20, and Ov. P. 3, 1, 95:

genus,

Sen. Hippol. 237: vir Amazonius, i. e. Hippolytus, the son of an Amazon by Theseus, Ov. H. 4, 2.