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|Text= | |Text=[[Πολυδεύκης]], -ου, ὁ; see [[Dioscuri]]. | ||
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|gf=<b>Pollūx</b>,¹¹ ūcis, m. ([[Πολυδεύκης]]), fils de Léda, frère de [[Castor]] : Cic. Nat. 3, 53 ; Leg. 2, 19 || v. [[Polluces]].||v. [[Polluces]]. | |gf=<b>Pollūx</b>,¹¹ ūcis, m. ([[Πολυδεύκης]]), fils de Léda, frère de [[Castor]] : Cic. Nat. 3, 53 ; Leg. 2, 19 || v. [[Polluces]].||v. [[Polluces]]. | ||
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|georg=Pollūx, ūcis, m. ([[Πολυδεύκης]]), [[Sohn]] [[des]] [[Tyndarus]] (od. [[des]] [[Jupiter]]) und der [[Leda]], [[Bruder]] [[des]] Kastor, [[als]] Faustfechter ([[pugil]]) od. [[Fechter]] [[mit]] dem Cästus [[berühmt]], [[wie]] Kastor [[als]] guter [[Reiter]], Cic. de legg. 2, 19. Hyg. fab. 14 u. 173: [[Pollux]] [[uterque]], Kastor u. [[Pollux]], Hor. carm. 3, 29, 64. – dah. Castora de Polluce facere alqm = equitem de pugile, Mart. 7, 57, 1. – / Altlat. [[Form]] Pollūcēs, is, m., Plaut. Bacch. 894. [[Varro]] LL. 5, 73: u. Polōcēs, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 55. | |||
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|wketx=[[Castor]] and [[Pollux]] (or [[Polydeukes]]) are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the [[Dioscuri]]. | |||
Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who raped Leda in the guise of a swan. The pair are thus an example of heteropaternal superfecundation. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. | |||
In Latin the twins are also known as the Gemini (literally "twins") or Castores, as well as the Tyndaridae or Tyndarids. Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire. They were also associated with horsemanship, in keeping with their origin as the Indo-European horse twins. | |||
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