Ăbȳdus and Ăbȳdos, i (in MSS. also Aboedus), f. (m., Verg. G. 1, 207), = Ἄβυδος,
- I. a town in Mysia, on the narrowest point of the Hellespont, opposite Sestos, now perh. Aidos or Avido, Mel. 1, 9, 1; Auct. Her. 4, 54, 68: ostrifer, Verg. G. 1, 207: mea, Ov. H. 18, 127; 19, 30 al.: Abydum oppidum, Plin. 5, 32, 40, § 141.
- II. Hence deriv.: Ăbȳdēnus, a, um, adj., belonging to Abydus: juvenis, i. e. Leander, Stat. S. 1, 2, 87; the same absol.: Abydenus, Ov. H. 18, 1.
In plur.: Ăbȳdēni, the inhabitants of Abydus, Liv. 31, 16.