canicularis
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canicularem Adjective: feminine accusative singular, Adjective: masculine accusative singular of canicularis
- of or pertaining to the dog-star (post-class.): dies, dog-days, Pall. Jul. 1 and 7; Sol. Veg. 5, 35: inclementia, Sid. Ep. 2, 2.
doge , canis, caniculus et canicula; ~is ‥, canicus et caninus participia
~ibus decoctus flammis
oblatrantibus diebus ~ibus, qui tunc deseviebant, homines infirmi decubuerunt
Canicula est ‥ stella ferventissima. ‥ ab hac stella dicuntur dies ~es
utrum sub Cane, id est in diebus ~ibus, fit pluvia a fortuna
cum Canis intrabit [(gl.: i. cum illa stella nociva in celo que Canis Primus dicitur oriatur cum sole, quod est quando sol est in fine Cancri in mense Julii in diebus ~ibus ]
erat ‥ primus dies ~ium, qui expost infausti fuere villanis
Certain days in the summer, preceding and ensuing the heliacal rising of Canicula, or the dog-star, in the morning. The ancients believed that this star, rising with the sun, and joining his influence to the fire of that luminary, was the cause of the extraordinary heat which usually prevailed in that season; and accordingly they gave the name of dog-days to about six or eight weeks of the hottest part of summer. This idea originated with the Egyptians, and was borrowed from them by the Greeks. The Romans sacrificed a brown dog every year to Canicula, at its rising, to appease its rage. See Sirius.