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Icarus

Icarus · m

A son of Dœdalus

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īcărus — Lewis & Short

īcărus, i, m., = *)/ikaros.

I A son of Dœdalus, who, on his flight from Crete, fell into the Ægean Sea, Ov. M. 8, 195 sq.; Hor. C. 2, 20, 13; Hyg. F. 40.—
B Derivv.
1 īcărĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Icarus, Icarian: aquae, the part of the Ægean Sea named after Icarus, Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 90.—Also absol.: īcărĭum (sc. mare), Ov. F. 4, 283; 566: fluctus, Hor. C. 1, 1, 15: litus, Ov. H. 18, 50.—
2 Icăros, i, f., one of the Sporades, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 68.—
II =*)ika/rios, son of Œbalus, king of Sparta, the father of Erigone and Penelope, placed in the heavens as the constellation Bŏōtes, Hyg. F. 224; Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 29; Tib. 4, 1, 10; Ov. M. 10, 450.—Called also īcărĭus, Ov. H. 1, 81; Hyg. F. 130.—
B Derivv.
1 īcărĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Icarus, Icarian: palmes, i. e. the vine, which Bacchus taught Icarus to cultivate, Stat. S. 3, 1, 147; cf. umbra, i. e. of the vine, id. Th. 4, 655: boves, the constellation Bŏōtes, Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 24: canis stella, i. e. the constellation Canis Major (the dog of Icarus, named Mæra, which was translated to the sky), Ov. Am. 2, 16, 4; so, astrum, Stat. Th. 4, 777; hence also: latratus, id. Silv. 4, 4, 13.—
2 īcăris, ĭdis, = *)ikari/s, the daughter of Icarus, i. e. Penelope, Ov. Ib. 393.—
3 īcărĭōtis, ĭdis, f., = *)ikariwti/s, the daughter of Icarus, i. e. Penelope, Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 10.—Adj.: tela, i. e. of Penelope, Ov. P. 3, 1, 113.

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