Adoneus

A surname of Bacchus, which signifies the Ruler.

The name is sometimes used by Latin poets for Adonis.1

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References

Notes

  1. Plautus. Menaechmus i, 2.25; Catullus xxix, 9.

Sources

  • Ausonius. Epigrams xxix, 6.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.