proper noun
Hēlĭădĕs
Meaning
- daughters of Helios and sisters of Phaëthon
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
fīliae SōlisHēliades -um (f pl) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 5
Hēlĭădĕs, um, f., = Ἡλιάδες,
I. daughters of Helios and sisters of Phaëthon, who were changed into poplars (acc. to others, into alders) and their tears into amber, Hyg. Fab. 154; Ov. M. 2, 340 (cf. Verg. A. 10, 190, with id. E. 6, 62): nemus Heliadum, i. e. poplar- or alder-grove, Ov. M. 10, 91:
Heliadum lacrimae, i. e. amber, id. ib. 10, 263; called also: Heliadum gemma, Mart. 9, 14, 6; hence: capaces Heliadum crustae, i. e. of amber, Juv. 5, 38.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Hēliades um, f
, Ἡλιάδες, daughters of Helios, changed into poplars, O.: nemus Heliadum, i. e. poplar-grove, O.; their tears became amber, hence, Heliadum lacrimae, i. e. amber, O.: capaces Heliadum crustae, i. e. of amber, Iu.