Naxos, An yle in the sea called Aegeum, one of the Cyclades, not farre from Paros, renoumed for the white Marble there growing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Naxos, i, f., = *na/cos, the isle of Naxos (now Naxia, or Axia), in the Ægean Sea, the largest of the Cyclades, famed for its wines, and for the abandonment there of Ariadne by Theseus, Plin. 4, 12, 22, 67; Verg. A. 3, 125; Ov. M. 3, 640; Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 27.— Hence, Naxĭus, a, um, adj., Naxian: turba, Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 28: juncus, Plin. 21, 18, 69, 115: ardor,
Ariadne's crown, a constellation
, Col. 10, 52: cos, = *naci/a a)ko/nh, a whetstone from Naxos, Plin. 36, 22, 47, 164. —Subst.: naxĭum, ii, n., a Naxian whetstone, Plin. 36, 7, 10, 54; 37, 8, 32, 109.— II.An ancient city of Sicily, destroyed by Dionysius. On or near its site Tauromenium was built, Plin. 3, 8, 14, 88.