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lychnus

lychnus, a light, lamp

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

lychnus , ī, m.: a lamp, light, 1.726.
lychnus (old Latinized form lucinus, Enn.; cf. Ritschl in Rhein. Mus. 10, p. 448 sq.), i, m., = λύχνος,
  • a light, a lamp: pendentes lychni, Lucr. 5, 295: lux alia est solis et lychnorum, Cic. Cael. 28, 67; Verg. A. 1, 726; Stat. Th. 1, 520.

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