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[90] cinis: funeral pyre; found only here in this sense. The noun is feminine also in the singular in Catul. 101.4 (as in Lucr. 4.926 and not infrequently in late Latin), but masculine in the plural in Catul. 68.98; cf. Non. 198[cinis] feminino apud Caesarem et Catullum et Calvum lectum est, quorum vacillat auctoritas” .


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