Potnias

Potnĭae, ārum, f., = Potniai, a village in Bœotia, on the Asopus, in whose neighborhood were pastures which made animals mad, Plin. 25, 8, 53, § 94.—Hence,

II.

Pot-nĭas, ădis, adj. f., = Potnias, of Potniœ, Potnian ( poet. ):

quo tempore Glauci Potniades malis membra absumpsere quadrigae (i. e. equae),

Verg. G. 3, 268: equae, Ov. lb. 557.