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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Leda and brothers of Helen and Clytemnestra, who were transformed by Zeus into the constellation Gemini.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In Greek myth, the twin sons of Zeus and Leda, Castor and Polydeuces or Pollux, warrior gods, and tutelary protectors of sailors. At a comparatively late date the Dioscuri were partly confused with the Cabiri.
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Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Διόσκουροι (Dióskūroi, "the youths of Zeus"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek Dioskouroi : Dios, genitive of Zeus, Zeus; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots + kouroi, pl. of kouros, boy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“First of all, as far back as Homer we were told the name Dioscuri sons of Zeus”
“Dioscuri is an x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java.”
“The sort of fires that appear on ships -- whom some call the Dioscuri”
“Xenophanes says that the star-like phenomena seen when aboard ship, which some call the Dioscuri, are cloudlets, glimmering because of their kind of motion.”
“Dioscuri, which is distant about three furlongs from the city.”
“What are those Stars which are called the Dioscuri, The Twins, or Castor and Pollux?”
Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted
“The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology.”
“See article "Dioscuri" in Pauly-Wissowa, _Real-Encycl.”
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
“At length in despair Cleinias and Socrates turn to the 'Dioscuri' and request their aid.”
“Dioscuri version 0.2.0 is out now This release is capable of running various versions of MS-DOS, FreeDOS 0.9 Beta (included in package) and ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset)”
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