Naice

Nāĭăs, ădis, and more freq. Nāĭs, ĭdis and ĭdos (plur. ĭdas), f., = Naïas and Nhais (floating, swimming, that is in the water), a water-nymph, Naiad:

illum fontana petebant Numina, Naïades,

Ov. M. 14, 328:

Aegle Naïadum pulcherrima,

Verg. E. 6, 21:

Naïs Amalthēa,

Ov. F. 5, 115.— Poet. of mixing wine with water:

Naïda Bacchus amat,

Tib. 3, 6, 57.— Adj.:

puellae Naïdes,

Verg. E. 10, 10.—

II.

Transf., in gen., a nymph (Hamadryad, Nereid):

Naïda vulneribus succidit in arbore factis,

Ov. F. 4, 231:

inter Hamadryadas celeberrima Naias,

id. M. 1, 691:

Naïdes aequoreae,

id. ib. 14, 557.—

III.

The surname probably of a freedwoman:

Servilia Naïs,

Suet. Ner. 3.— Hence, Nāĭcus, a, um, adj., of the Naids, proceeding from the Naids:

dona,

Prop. 2, 32, 40.—

B.

As subst.: Nāĭcus, i, m., a Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 241, col. 2.— In fem.: ‡ Nāĭcē, Inscr. Fabr. p. 650, n. 433.