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Hўădes

Hўădes · f

the Hyades

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What it meant

Hўădes — Lewis & Short

Hўădes, um, f., = *(ua/des (the rainers),

I the Hyades, a group of seven stars in the head of Taurus (called in pure Lat. suculae; v. 3. sucula), Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 111; Plin. 18, 26, 66, § 247; 37, 7, 28, § 100; cf. id. 2, 39, 39, § 106. They were fabled as daughters of Atlas and sisters of Hyas and of the Pleiades, Ov. F. 5, 165 sq.; id. M. 3, 595; 13, 293; Verg. A. 3, 516; Hor. C. 1, 3, 14.— In sing.: Hyas, ădis, the Hyad, collect., Stat. S. 1, 6, 22.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.