Orcades
Orcădes, um, f.,
- islands near Scotland, now the Orkneys, Mel. 3, 6, 7; Tac. Agr. 10; Plin. 4, 16, 30, § 103.—Acc. plur.: Orcadas, Juv. 2, 161.
Orcades, um, f., Inseln bei Schottland, jetzt die Orkneys-Inseln, Mela 3, 6, 7 (3. § 54). Plin. 4, 103: Akk. Plur. Orcadas, Iuven. 2, 161. Oros. 7, 6, 10.
~as ‥ insulas ultra Brittanniam in oceano positas Romano adjecit imperio
destinavit ex suis ‥ ad insulas que procul sunt, versus Orchades, Norwagiam, Ysalandam
Orchades,Orcheneheie
testibus: ‥ Willelmo comite Orchadie et domino de Sanctoclaro
pro expensis quinque falconariorum domini regis missorum in ~ia
apud Scottos, ~as Irosque ‥ celeberrimus habebatur
Orcădes, (15) um, f. , les Orcades, îles au nord des îles Britanniques : Plin. 4, 103 ; Juv. 2, 161.
ORCADES
O´RCADES(Ὀρκάδες νῆσοι, Ptol. 2.3.31), a group of small islands lying off the northern extremity of Britannia Barbara. According to Ptolemy (l. c.) and Mela (3.6.7) they were 30 in number; Pliny (Plin. Nat. 4.16. s. 30) reckons them at 40; Orosius (Oros. 1.2) at 33, of which 20 were inhabited and 13 uninhabited. This last account agrees very nearly, with that of Jornandes ( B. Get. 1), who makes them 34 in number. See also Tacitus ( Agric. 10) and the Itinerary (p. 508). The modern Orkneyand Shetland Islands.
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