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|lshtext=<b>cancer</b>: cri (<br /><b>I</b> gen. canceris, Lucr. 5, 616; Arn. 1, p. 30; acc. plur. canceres, [[Cato]], R. R. 157, 3), m. (neutr. [[Claudius]], Quadrig. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.; Scrib. Comp. 206 and 240) [cf. [[καρκίνος]]; [[root]] kar-, to be [[hard]]; [[whence]] [[κάρυον]], [[cornu]], a [[crab]], a [[river]]-[[crab]], [[sea]]-[[crab]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97 sq.; 19, 10, 58, § 180; Pall. 1, 35, 7; Ov. M. 15, 369; Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 45; Verg. G. 4, 48; Col. 9, 5, 6: [[cancer]] [[femina]], Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 134; Pall. 1, 35, 7.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]., hands [[that]] cling [[fast]] [[like]] the claws of crabs: Orci cancri, App. M. 6, p. 176, 26.—<br /><b>II</b> As nom. propr., the Crab, the [[sign]] of the zodiac in [[which]] the [[sun]] is [[found]] at the [[time]] of the [[summer]] [[solstice]], Lucr. 5, 616; Ov. M. 2, 83; 10, 127; id. F. 6, 727; Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 110; Luc. 10, 259; cf. Hyg. Astr. 2, 23; Macr. S. 1, 17 fin.; acc. to the [[fable]], as an [[animal]] [[hostile]] to [[Hercules]] in the [[contest]] [[with]] the Lernœan [[hydra]]; cf. Hyg. l. l. Hence, Lernaeus, Col. 10, 313.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Poet. for the [[region]] of the [[south]], the [[south]], Ov. M. 4, 625.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[designate]] [[great]] or [[violent]] [[heat]], Ov. M. 10, 127.—<br /><b>III</b> In [[medicine]], a crawling, [[eating]], [[suppurating]] [[ulcer]], [[malignant]] [[tumor]], a [[cancer]], Cels. 5, 26, 31; 6, 18, 3: [[malum]] immedicabile [[cancer]], Ov. M. 2, 825; [[Cato]], R. R. 157, 3; Claud. Quadrig. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P><br /><b>cancer</b>: cri, m. [[root]] kar-, to [[bend]], [[twist]]; [[whence]] [[corona]], [[circus]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[lattice]], the [[radical]] form of [[cancelli]], q. v., Paul. ex Fest. p. 46; cf.: [[inter]] Orci cancros, App. M. 6, p. 176, 25.

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