proper noun
Dēmētrĭas
Meaning
- a city in Thessaly
Dēmētrĭas, ădis, f.
I. Gr. Δημητριάς, a city in Thessaly (Pelasgiotis), newly colonized by Demetrius Poliorcetes, formerly called Pagasae, now Volo, Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 29; Liv. 27, 23 fin.; 28, 5; 39, 23.—
B. Hence, Dēmētrĭacus, a, um, of Demetrias:
sinus, Liv. 28, 5 fin. (al. Demetraicus).—II. A sort of plant, Ap. Herb. 3.
In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries
GeographyDemetriasDemetrias (Δημητριάς: Eth. Δημητριεύς), a city of Magnesia in Thessaly, situated at the head of the Pagasaean gulf, was founded about. B.C. 290 by Dem…GeographyDemetriasDemetrias (Δημητριάς), a town of Assyria, stated by Strabo to have been in the neighbourhood of Arbela (xvi. p. 738; Steph. B. sub voce. Isidore of Ch…