2. Noun. The seven principal stars in the constellation Ursa Major ¹
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Definition of Triones
1. the seven stars of the Plough [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triones
Literary usage of Triones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Vocabulary of Latin by Joseph Henry Allen (1872)
"... i, M. (3 oboli), sixpence. triones, um, M. (team of oxen) ; septem, the Polar
Hear, ... triones ..."
2. Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller, Royal institution of Great Britain (1890)
"73-75), in a passage which is not very clear, tells us that triones was the name
by which, even at his time, ploughmen used to call oxen when actually ..."
3. A Latin-English Dictionary Printed from the Unfinished Ms. of the Late by Thomas Hewitt Key (1888)
"ND 2, 105 ; quare quod inv.ftir Graeci uocant, nos septem triones ... a solo
numero stel- larum dictum putat, triones enim per sese ..."
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