CYNOSURA

CYNOSURA
I.
CYNOSURA
i. e. canis canda. Sidus septentrionale, ex 7. constans stellis, quod et ursam minorem vocant. Hanc Poetae fabulantur Nympham fuisse Idaeam, unam ex Iovis nutricibus, postea ab illo rerum potito in hoc sidus translatam, ut ex Aglaosthenis sententia refert Hyginus, l. 2. Astron. Poet. c. 2. Ovid. l. 3. Fast. v. 107.
Esse duas Arctos, quarum Cynosura petatur
Sidomis, Helicem Graia carina notat.
Val. Elac. l. 1. v. 17.
--- Neque enim in Tyrias Cynosura carinas
Certior, aut Graiis Helice serudnda magistris.
Vide etiam Helice.
II.
CYNOSURA
promontor. Arcadiae, Steph. Item alterum Achaiae. Ptol. et Marathonis versus Eubaeam. Hesych. et Arcadiae oppid. Lactant.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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