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Capricornus

Capricornus · m

Capricorn

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Where it lives

De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
Eclogarum Liber 4 · 14.61/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Căprĭcornus — Lewis & Short

Căprĭcornus, i, m.caper-cornu; cf. in Gr. ai\gokereu/s,

I Capricorn (having a goat's horns), the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the winter solstice (opp. Cancer), Varr 2, 1, 8; Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 112; id. Arat. 59 (293); Hor. C. 2, 17, 20; Ov. F. 1, 651; Plin. 2, 16, 13, § 64 sq.; Macr. S. 1, 17; Hyg. Fab. 196; id. Astr. 2, 28.

In the wild

Capricorno Appendix Vergiliana, De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 8
Capricorni Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.32
Capricorno Ovid, Fasti 1.651
Capricornus Propertius, Elegiae 4.1.86
Capricornus Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.112
capricornum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.9.p4

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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