Lydia, A countrey of Asia, on the east ioyaing to Phrygia: on the north to Mysia: on the south, vpon parte of Caria. In this region is the hil called Tmolus, out of the which commeth the rych riuer called Pactolus. Reade of them in their owne places.Lydi mali, Post hos Aegyprij, A prouerbe applyed where two euill persons be compared togither, and the one being founde verie vngracious, the other deserueth the lesse dispraise.
Lydius, Lapis, qui & Heraclius. Plin. The touchstone wherwith golde is tried.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ldĭa, ae, f., = *ludi/a, a country in Asia Minor, the capital of which was Sardis, the fabled original land of the Etruscans, Plin. 5, 29, 30, 110; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 4; Cic. Fl. 27, 65; Liv. 38, 39, 16 et saep.—Hence, A. Ldĭus, a, um, adj.1.Lydian: regna,
, Sen. Oet. 371: sil. Plin. 33, 13, 56, 160: lapis, a touchstone (at first found only on the Tmolus), id. 33, 8, 43, 126: moduli, id. 7, 56, 57, 204.—(b).Subst.: Lydĭon, i, n., a kind of brick, Plin. 35, 14, 49, 171.—2.Transf.a.Etruscan: Lydius fluvius, i. e.
the Tiber
, Verg. A. 2, 781: ripa, the right bank of theTiber, Stat. S. 4, 4, 6: stagna,
the Trasimene Lake
, Sil. 9, 11.—(Lydii, false read. for ludii; v. ludius).—b.Rhætian (because the Rhætians were descended from the Etruscans, the descendants of the Lydians): undae,
the Lake Benacus
, Cat. 31, 13.—B. Ldus, a, um, adj., Lydian: Lydus servus, Cic. Fl. 27, 65: puella, i. e.
Omphale
, Ov. F. 2, 365: Lydae pondera gazae (i. e. aurum Pactoli), Stat. S. 5, 1, 60: nurus, Val. Fl. 4, 369.—2.Transf., Etrurian, Etruscan.— As subst.: Ldi, ōrum, m.: Lydorum manus,