cycnum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cycnus, cycni:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
swan; (favorable omen); (drawing chariot of Venus);
acc. sg.gen. pl. - Entry →cycnon, cycni:
Neuter · Noun
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Bio/medical
kind of eye-salve;
gen. pl.
Examples
- D
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nomine tantum insignis? nanum cuiusdam Atlanta uocamus, Aethiopem Cycnum, prauam extortamque puellam Europen; canibus pigris scabieque uetusta leuibus..." 
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...Thoen, rapidum Danaeius augur Ascheton increpitans meritumque uocabula Cycnum. audit et Herculeum Strymon Chromin, Euneon audit igneus Aetion..."- P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sonantem agminis aligeri, subito cum lapsus ad undas cycnum excellentem pedibus rapit improbus uncis. arrexere animos Itali, cunctaeque..." - P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Amor, vestrum) formaeque insigne paternae. namque ferunt luctu Cycnum Phaethontis amati, populeas inter frondes umbramque sororum dum canit..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...revellit: qualis ubi aut leporem aut candenti corpore cycnum sustulit alta petens pedibus Iovis armiger uncis, quaesitum..." - P
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Peliacae sternebat cuspidis ictu agmina perque acies aut Cycnum aut Hectora quaerens congreditur Cycno (decimum dilatus in annum..."