pontus

1.

pontus, i, m., = pontos.

I.

Lit., the sea ( poet. for mare): mulserat huc navem pontus, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 257 Vahl.):

placidus,

Lucr. 2, 559:

pontus Libyae,

Verg. A. 1, 556:

caelum undique et undique pontus,

id. ib. 3, 193 al.:

aequora ponti,

Lucr. 1, 8; 2, 772; Verg. G. 1, 469; cf.:

freta ponti,

id. ib. 1, 356.—

II.

Poet., transf.

* A.

The deep:

maris,

Verg. A. 10, 377 (a poetic pleonasm, like the Homer. pontos halos poliês, Il. 21, 59).—

* B.

A wave of the sea, sea-wave:

ingens a vertice pontus In puppim ferit,

Verg. A. 1, 114.

2.

Pontus, i, m., = Pontos.

A.

Lit., the Black Sea, called in full Pontus Euxinus, Mel. 1, 1, 5; 1, 3, 1; Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 75; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 129; id. Tusc. 1, 20, 45; 1, 39, 94; Val. Fl. 8, 180 al.—

B.

Transf., the region about the Black Sea:

Medea ex eodem Ponto profugisse,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 22; Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 1.—

2.

In partic., Pontus, a district in Asia Minor, between Bithynia and Armenia, the kingdom of Mithridates, afterwards a Roman province, Verg. G. 1, 58; Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 6; 2, 19, 5; id. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7; Vell. 2, 40, 1; Flor. 3, 6, 8 al.—Hence, Pontĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pontus, Pontic:

mare,

Liv. 40, 21; Mel. 2, 1, 5; Flor. 3, 5, 18:

terra,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 94:

populi,

Mel. 1, 2, 6:

pinus,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 11:

absinthium,

Col. 12, 35:

nuces,

a kind of hazel-nuts, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 88:

mures,

ermines, id. 8, 37, 55, § 132; 10, 73, 93, § 200:

serpens,

the dragon that watched the golden fleece, Juv. 14, 114:

radix,

rhubarb, Cels. 5, 23 fin.;

also called Rha,

Amm. 22, 8, 28:

Ponticus genere,

Vulg. Act. 18, 2.— As subst.

(α).

Pontĭci, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of the province of Pontus, Flor. 3, 5, 12; 23.—

(β).

Pontĭcum, i, n., = 2. Pontus, the Black Sea, Flor. 3, 6, 10.