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Lȳdē, ēs, f., = Λύδη,

  1. I. the wife of the poet Antimachus of Claros, who attempted to console himself for her death by an elegiac poem which he named Lyde: Clario Lyde dilecta poëtae, Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 1.
  2. II. The name of a female quack-doctor: turgida condīta pyxide Lyde, Juv. 2, 141.