Arctos

arctos Arctos Latin Alternative forms la Arctus native 2nd declension la arctos in metonymic senses Etymology la Arctos :bor<conj:and> grc:Ἄρκτος<t:Ursa Major> grc:ἄρκτος<t:the north> + 1 ursus Proper noun Arctos<2.both> f la in plural Ursa Major and Ursa Minor Propertius (2, 22, 25f.). In: Propertius with an English translation by H. E. Butler, 1916, page 124f.: Iuppiter Alcmenae geminas requieverat Arctōs, et caelum noctu bis sine rege fuit; Jove for Alcmena's sake made the stars of the Bear to slumber two nights long, and heaven twice was kingless through the dark; la metonymically in plural north Claudianus (De consulatu stilichonis, 1, 246ff.). In: Claudian with an English translation by Maurice Platnauer. In two volumes I, 1922, page 382f.: Post domitas Arctos alio prorupit ab axe tempestas et, ne qua tuis intacta tropaeis pars foret, Australis sonuit tuba. After the conquest of the north arose a fresh storm in another quarter. The trumpets of war rang out in the south that there might be no part of the world untouched by thy victories: la metonymically in the singular north Horatius (Carmina, 2, 15, 14ff.). In: The Odes and Epodes of Horace[.] A metrical Translation into English with Introduction and Commentaries by Lord Lytton[.] With Latin text. New Edition, 1872, page 178f.: ... nulla decempedis Metata privatis opacam Porticus excipiebat Arcton;2 No one sought the cool shade of the North Under peristyles planned out for temples;2 2 'Nulla [...] Arcton.' No private man had porticoes measured by a ten-feet rule, which appears to have been a measurement for temples and public buildings. The peristyles at Pompeii, which form an inner court to the house, give sufficient idea of these corridors, opening to the north for coolness in summer, and to the south for sunshine in winter. Declension Arctos<2.both> Arctoe Derived terms la Parrhasis Arctos Further reading arctŏs arctos 156