cancri
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cancer, cancri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
crab; Cancer (zodiac); the_South; summer heat; cancer, disease, tumor, canker;; lattice, grid; barrier;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pasci Phoebumque polosquecredimus: hunc, calidi tetigit cum bracchia Cancri,sol rapit, atque undae plus quam quod digerat..."Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Vmida qua gelidas summittit Trebula ualles et uiridis cancri mensibus alget ager, rura Cleonaeo numquam temerata leone..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...praefert Hyadas, secum Geminos trahet et curui bracchia Cancri; Leo flammiferis aestibus ardens iterum e caelo cadet Herculeus..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...perennes seruat aquas; solet et rabidi sub limite Cancri semper, et Icarii quamuis iuba fulguret astri, ire tamen..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...crura sensim demittit uado;quorum inter uillos haeserunt cancri simul,in terram adsiliens excutit praedam maris,escaque fruitur..."Ecloga X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...aret in ulmo, Aethiopum uersemus ouis sub sidere Cancri. Omnia uincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori." Haec..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...mediusque dies, solisque vapore concava litorei fervebant bracchia Cancri: fessus in herbosa posuit sua corpora terra cervus..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...terras totumque supervolat orbem. ter gelidas Arctos, ter Cancri bracchia vidit, saepe sub occasus, saepe est ablatus..."