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Pȳrēnaeus, a, um, and Pȳrēnāĭ-cus, a, um, v. Pyrene.

Pȳrēnē (y scanned short, Tib. 1, 7, 10), ēs, f., = Πυρηνη.

  1. I. One of the fifty daughters of Danaüs, Hyg. Fab. 170.
  2. II. Daughter of Bebryx, beloved by Hercules, and buried upon the mountains called after her name; cf. Sil. 3, 420 sq.
      1. 2. Transf.
        1. a. The Pyrenæan Mountains, the Pyrenees, Tib. 1, 7, 9; Luc. 1, 689; Sil. 1, 487: Pyrenes promunturium, Liv. 26, 19.
        2. b. Spain, Sil. 15, 451; 16, 247: Pyrenes populi, id. 1, 190.
          Hence,
      1. 1. Pȳrēnaeus (y scanned short, Luc. 4, 83), a, um, adj.
          1. (α) Of or belonging to Pyrene, Pyrenæan: Pyrenaei montes or Pyrenaeus saltus, the Pyrenæan Mountains, the Pyrenees, Caes. B. G. 1, 1; id. B. C. 1, 37; 3, 19; Liv. 21, 23 sq.; Mel. 2, 5, 1; Plin. 16, 16, 28, § 71; Sil. 3, 415; Aus. Ep. 24, 69.
          2. (β) Of or belonging to the Pyrenees, Pyrenæan: nives, Luc. 4, 83: juvenci, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 406: Venus, who was worshipped on the Pyrenees, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 22.
            Also, subst.: Pȳrēnaeum, i, n., Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 18.
      2. 2. Pȳrēnāĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Pyrenees, Pyrenæan: nives, Aus. Urb. in Narbone, 13, 6 dub. (al. Pyrenaeis).