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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Leda and brothers of Helen and Clytemnestra, who were transformed by Zeus into the constellation Gemini.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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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- proper noun Greek mythology The twin brothers
Castor andPollux together.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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First of all, as far back as Homer we were told the name Dioscuri sons of Zeus
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Dioscuri is an x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java.
October 2007 2007
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The sort of fires that appear on ships -- whom some call the Dioscuri
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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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.
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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Dioscuri, which is distant about three furlongs from the city.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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What are those Stars which are called the Dioscuri, The Twins, or Castor and Pollux?
Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted 2004
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The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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See article "Dioscuri" in Pauly-Wissowa, _Real-Encycl.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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At length in despair Cleinias and Socrates turn to the 'Dioscuri' and request their aid.
Euthydemus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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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)
October 2007 2007
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