delphinas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delphis, delphinis:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Field:
- Agriculture
dolphin; ornament shaped like a dolphin; (part of water organ); constellation;
acc. pl.
Examples
- A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...peri Dikaiarchias paidos A - Hyakinthos ekaleito - pothois eptoemenon delphina. Prossainei ten phonen autou ten psychen pteroumenos entos..." 
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...gurgite terror piscibus, arcani quotiens deuexa profundi scrutantem delphina uident; fugit omnis in imos turba lacus uiridesque metu..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...Fama sinus pelagusque natatum iactet et audaci victos delphinas ephebo: hic aeterna quies, nullis hic iura procellis, numquam..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...pasci. elicit inde fretis et murice frenat acuto delphinas biiugos, quos illi maxima Tethys gurgite Atlanteo pelagi..."- P
Ecloga VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...ululae, sit Tityrus Orpheus, Orpheus in siluis, inter delphinas Arion. Incipe Maenalios mecum, mea tibia, uersus. Omnia..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sensit volucrem crinita colubris mater equi volucris, sensit delphina Melantho: omnibus his faciemque suam faciemque locorum reddidit..."