Sămŏthrācĭa Copy link Outline I. Samothrace, an island near the coast of Thrace ...1. Sămŏthrācĭus, a, um, adj., Samothracian ...2. Sămŏthrāces, um, m., the inhabitants of Samothrace ...3. Sămŏthrācēnus, a, um, adj., Samothracian ...4. Sămŏthrācĭcus, a, um, adj., Samothracian ...5. Sămŏthrācus, a, um, adj., Samothracian ... • Sămŏthrācĭa, ae, f., I. Samothrace, an island near the coast of Thrace, famous for the mystic worship of the Cabiri, now Samothraki, Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119; 3, 37, 87; id. Pis. 36, 89; Varr. L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Verg. A. 7, 208.—Also called Sămŏthrācē, ēs, f., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 5; Mel. 2, 7, 8; Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 73; Sămŏthrāca, ae, f., Liv. 42, 25; 44, 45; 44, 46; and Thrēïcĭa Să-mus or Sămos, after the Gr. θρηϊκίη Σάμος, Verg. A. 7, 208; Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 20.— Hence, 1. Sămŏthrācĭus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: ferrea (a kind of rings first made there), Lucr. 6, 1044 (cf. Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 23): caepa, Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 101: insula, i. e. Samothrace, and, named from it, gemma, id. 37, 10, 67, § 181 (Jahn, Samothraca). — 2. Sămŏthrāces, um, m., the inhabitants of Samothrace, the Samothracians, Varr. L. L. 5, § 58; Liv. 45, 5; Curt. 8, 1, 25; Stat. Achill. 2, 157.—Also a dject.: Samothraces di, the Cabiri, Varr. 1. 1.; Macr. S. 3, 4; also absol.: jures licet et Samothracum Et nostrorum aras, Juv. 3, 144.— 3. Sămŏthrācēnus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: Zocles, of Samothrace, Plin. 11, 37, 63, § 167.— 4. Sămŏthrācĭcus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: religiones, Macr. S. 3, 4.— 5. Sămŏthrācus, a, um, adj., Samothracian: vates, Val. Fl. 2, 439.