Ocnus

He too calls a train from his native coasts, Ocnus, son of prophetic

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Herminius smote down Aruns: Lartius laid Ocnus low:

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

Ocnus was always twisting a rope with unwearied diligence, but an ass ate it as fast as it was twisted.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Ocnus is represented as twisting with unwearied diligence a rope, which an ass eats as fast as it is made.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

The allegory signifies that Ocnus worked hard to earn money, which his wife spent by her extravagance.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

⁂ This allegory means that Ocnus worked hard to earn money, which his wife squandered by her extravagance.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Diviners, too, who prophefy from the flight of birds, call a certain bird Ocnus: and this bird is the largeft and moft beautiful of herons, and at the fame. time is very rare.

The Description of Greece 1794

I know, indeed, that the lonlans, when they fee a man very induftrious, but at the fame time labouring without any emolument, fay that he twifts the rope of Ocnus.

The Description of Greece 1794