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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>piscis</b>: is, m. etym. dub.; cf. Angl. -Sax. fisk, Germ. Fisch,<br /><b>I</b> a [[fish]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: ubi lanigerum [[pecus]] piscibus pascit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. cyprio, p. 59 Müll. (Sat. v. 42 Vahl.); id. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 5 Vahl.); Plaut. As. 1, 3, 26; id. Truc. 2, 3, 1: pisces ut [[saepe]] minutos magnu' comest, Varr. ap. Non. 81, 11: [[etsi]] pisces ut aiunt, ova cum genuerunt, relinquunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 129; Hor. C. 4, 3, 19; Juv. 4, 72.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing. [[collect]].: pisce vehi quaedam (natarum videntur), Ov. M. 2, 13; Plin. 11, 53, 116, § 281: [[lacus]] piscem suggerit, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 1; so, [[piscis]] [[femina]], Ov. A. A. 2, 482.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., as a [[constellation]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Pisces, the Fishes, a [[constellation]] consisting of 34 stars. Acc. to the [[myth]], [[Cupid]] and [[Venus]], [[during]] the [[war]] of the Titans, were carried for [[safety]] [[across]] the Euphrales by fishes, [[who]] were on this [[account]] placed [[among]] the stars, Ov. F. 2, 458; Hyg. Astr. 2, 30; 3, 29; Col. 11, 2, 24; 63; cf. [[nodus]], I. B. 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Piscis major, Avien. Arat. 806. Prob. the [[same]] [[constellation]], in the [[southern]] heavens, [[which]] Verg. G. 4, 234, calls Piscis [[aquosus]]; cf. Manil. 1, 428.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>piscis</b>,⁹ is, m., poisson : Cic. Nat. 2, 129 ; [[piscis]] [[femina]] Ov. Ars 2, 482, poisson femelle &#124;&#124; pl., les Poissons [signe du zodiaque] : Ov. F. 2, 458 ; [sing.] Virg. G. 4, 234.||pl., les Poissons [signe du zodiaque] : Ov. F. 2, 458 ; [sing.] Virg. G. 4, 234.
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{{Georges
|georg=piscis, is, m. (zu gotisch fisks, ahd. fisc), der [[Fisch]], I) eig.: spinae (Gräten) piscium, Cic. fr.: [[piscis]] [[femina]], Ov.: [[curvus]] [[piscis]], der [[Delphin]], Sil.: p. [[multinummus]], [[Varro]] fr.: pisces minuti, [[Varro]] fr.: p. [[putridus]], Sen.: p. [[apriculus]], Apul.: p. [[aurata]], Goldbrassen, Apic.: p. [[lupus]], Meerwolf, Apic.: pisces scorpiones, Apic.: amnici pisces, Solin.: siluri pisces, Solin. – pisces capere, Plaut., Cic. u.a. (u. so [[hic]] [[iaculo]] pisces, [[illic]] capiuntur ab hamis, Ov.): exenterare [[hunc]] piscem, Vulg.: [[mare]] [[non]] [[sane]] piscibus pretiosis abundat, Plin. ep. – Sing. kollektiv, Plin. 11, 281. Ov. [[met]]. 2, 13: [[lacus]] piscem suggerit, Plin. ep. 2, 8, 1. – II) übtr., [[als]] [[Gestirn]], pisces, die Fische, Ov. u. Colum.: pisces [[gemini]] od. gemelli ([[einer]] [[nach]] [[Süden]], der [[andere]] [[nach]] [[Norden]] gehend), Ov.: [[piscis]] [[maior]], anderes [[Gestirn]] am südlichen [[Himmel]], Avien. Arat. 106, [[auch]] [[piscis]] [[aquosus]], Verg. georg. 4, 234.
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