proper noun
Īlĭa
Meaning
- a poetical name of
Īlĭa, ae, f.,
I. a poetical name of Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor and mother of Romulus and Remus, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 70 P. (Ann. v. 56 Vahl.); Verg. A. 1, 274; Ov. F. 2, 383; 598; Hor. C. 1, 2, 17; 3, 9, 8; 4, 8, 22.—
II. Deriv.: īlĭădes, ae, m., son of Ilia.
A. Adj.:
Romulus Iliades Iliadesque Remus, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 40: pater, i. e. Romulus, id. F. 4, 23: fratres, i. e. Romulus and Remus, id. ib. 3, 62.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
īlia ōrum, n
the abdomen below the ribs, groin, flanks: demisit in ilia ferrum, O.: ducere ilia, be broken-winded, H.: rumpere ilia, V.—Poet., the entrails, H., Iu.—Sing gen.: ili pondera, the privates, Ct. dub.