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
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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..."- L
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..."- G
Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...crura sensim demittit uado;quorum inter uillos haeserunt cancri simul,in terram adsiliens excutit praedam maris,escaque fruitur..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."