Gades

See also: gades and Gadès

Latin

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤂𐤃𐤓 (gdr /⁠gādēr, gādīr⁠/, “a walled enclosure”); compare Ancient Greek Γᾱ́δειρα n pl (Gā́deira).

Gādēs f pl (genitive Gādium); third declension

modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
(figurative) an end or limit (from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain, on the edge of the Old world)
- Horace, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866)
  "You may possess a more extensive dominion by con- trolling a craving disposition, than if you could unite Libya to the distant Gades, and the natives of either Carthage were subject to you alone."
- Silius Italicus, Punica With An English Translation By James Duff:
  "So Hamilcar left his design of war concealed in his secret heart, and made for Calpe and Gades, the limit of the world; but, while carrying the standards of Africa to the Pillars of Hercules, he fell in a hard-fought battle."
- Juvenal, quoted in Dictionary of Latin quotations, proverbs, maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations (1866)
  "In all the lands which lie from Gades even to the land of the morn and the Ganges, few are able to re-move the clouds of prejudice, and to discern those things which are really for their good, and those which are directly the contrary."

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

“Gades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Gades in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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