noun

Dāci

gen. ōrum · gender masculine · decl. 2nd

the Dacians; a Dacian; collect

the Dacians, a famous warlike people, akin to the Thracians. They occupied what is now Upper Hungary, Transylvania, Moldavia, Wallachia, Bessarabia. Subdued by Trajan, they received Roman civilization, and thence retain in part the name Rumanians, Plin. 4, 12, 25; Caes. B. G. 6, 25; Tac. G. 1; id. H. 1, 79; 3, 46; Suet. Caes. 44; id. Aug. 8; Flor. 4, 12, 3; Hor. S. 2, 6, 53 et saep. In sing., Dācus, i, m., a Dacian (usually collect.), Verg. G. 2, 497; cf. Voss. ad loc.; Hor. Od. 1, 35, 9; 2, 20, 18; Tac. H. 1, 2 al.—

hence

Dacia; Dacia Aureliani; Dacia Ripensis

Dācĭa, ae, f., Δακία, the province Dacia, Tac. Agr. 41; Flor. 3, 4, 6; Oros. 1, 2; Jornand. Regn. Succ. p. 59, 52 al.: DACIA. APVLENSIS. (of the colony Apulum or Alba Julia, near Carlsburg), Inscr. Orell. no. 3888: (DECIO) RESTITVTORI DACIARVM, ib. no. 991. A part of it bordering on the Danube was Dacia Aureliani, Eutrop. 9, 15; and Dacia Ripensis, Jornand. Regn. Succ. p. 59, 51.—*

adj., Dacian •

Dācus, a, um, adj., Dacian: proelia, Stat. S. 4, 2, 66 (written Dacius, Albin. Cons. ad Liv. 387).—

adj., Dacian; a piece of gold coined under Domitian, the conqueror of the Dacians •

Dācĭcus, a, um, adj., Dacian: arma, Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 335: rura, Sid. Carm. 1, 272. As subst., Da-cicus, i, m. (sc. nummus), a piece of gold coined under Domitian, the conqueror of the Dacians (Suet. Dom. 6), Juv. 6, 205.—

adj., Dacian

Dāciscus, a, um, adj., Dacian, imperium, Lact. de Mort. Pers. 27, 8.

Perseus ID: n12250 Key: Daci