Attæ, attarum, appellantur qui propter vitium crurium aut pedum plantis insistunt, & attingunt magis terram, qum ambulant. Festus. Lame men not able well to goe.
Atthis, idis, sœ. gen. Was daughter of Craneus, whome some suppose to haue giuen the name to the countrey called Attica.
Atthis (better than Attis), ĭdis, adj. f., = *)atqi/s. I.Attic or Athenian: matres, Mart. 11, 53: lingua, App. M. 1, praef. Oud. —Hence, II.Subst.A.An Athenian woman, Sen. Hippol. 107.—Esp., Philomela; and, since she was changed to a nightingale, meton. for a nightingale, Mart. 1, 54, 9. Also Procne, the sister of Philomela; acc. to the fable (cf. Sen. Herc. Oet. 200), changed into a swallow; hence, meton. for a swallow, Mart. 5, 67.—B.A female friend of Sappho: Non oculis grata est Atthis, Ov. H. 15, 18 Merk. ubi v. Loers.—C.A name for Attica: Atthide temptantur gressus, Lucr. 6, 1116; Sid. Carm. 5, 44; cf. Mel. 2, 3, 4; 2, 7, 10.
Attis, ĭdis (also Atthis or Atys, os, and Attīn, īnis, Macr. S. 1, 21, p. 313 Bip.), m., = *)/attis (*)/attus, *)/atus, *)/attin), a young Phrygian shepherd, whom Cybele loved, and made her priest on condition of perpetual chastity; but he broke his vow, became insane, and emasculated himself, Cat. 63; Ov. M. 10, 104; id. F. 4, 223; Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 116; Macr. S. 1, 21.
Attĭus or Accĭus (both forms are equally attested; Attius predominated under the empire, and the Greeks always wrote *)/attios. Teuffel), ii, m., = *)/attios, a Roman proper name.I. L. Attius, a distinguished Roman poet of the ante-class. per., younger than Pacuvius, and his rival in tragedy and comedy. Of his poems a considerable number of fragments yet remain; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. pp. 44 and 45; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 49, and Schmid ad Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 56.—Hence, B. Attĭānus (Acc-), a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Attius: versus, Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 4: Attianum illud: nihil credo auguribus, Gell. 14, 1, 34.—II. Attius Navius, a soothsayer, who, in the presence and at the bidding of Tarquinius Priscus, cut in pieces a stone with a razor, Liv. 1, 36; Val. Max. 1, 4, n. 1; Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31 sqq.; 2, 38, 80.—III. P. Attius Varus, a prœtor in Africa at the time of the civil war between Cœsar and Pompey, Caes. B. C. 1, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 13.—Hence, B. Attĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Attius: milites, Caes. B. C. 1, 13: legiones, Cic. Att. 7, 15 and 20.—IV. T. Attius, an orator of Pisaurum, in the time of Cicero, Cic. Clu. 23.