Pleiades
Pleiades:
1. Vergĭliae, arum (the true Lat. name of the constellation): the rising, setting of the P., Vergiliarum exortus, occasus, Varr. R. R. 1, 28: they begin at the spring rising of the P.s, a Vergiliis vernis exortis incipiunt, ib. 2, 11: Col.: Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 112 (poet.).
2. Pleiădĕs, um, f. (Gk. Πλεϊάδες hence by contr. 3 syll. ; less freq. 4 syll., Plēĭădes, [Ion. = Πληϊάδες] Virg. G. 1, 138): Ov. F. 3, 105. Sing. Pleias , Virg. G. 4, 233.
1. Vergĭliae, arum (the true Lat. name of the constellation): the rising, setting of the P., Vergiliarum exortus, occasus, Varr. R. R. 1, 28: they begin at the spring rising of the P.s, a Vergiliis vernis exortis incipiunt, ib. 2, 11: Col.: Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 112 (poet.).
2. Pleiădĕs, um, f. (Gk. Πλεϊάδες hence by contr. 3 syll. ; less freq. 4 syll., Plēĭădes, [Ion. = Πληϊάδες] Virg. G. 1, 138): Ov. F. 3, 105. Sing. Pleias , Virg. G. 4, 233.