Piscis, huius piscis, m. g. Pli. A fish properly that hath scales.Aequorei pisces.Ouid.Captiui.Ouid.Alienigeni pisces. Col. Fluuiales pisces. Col. Fresh water fishe.Auidi pisces. Mart. Formosus piscis. Var. Generosissimi pisces. Col. Litoralis piscis, Vide LITVS.Marini pisces. Col. Sea fishes.Molles pisces, Vide MOLLIS.Muti. Hor. Obscœnus piscis. Plin. Nitidi.Ouid.Pelagij pisces, & Pelagici. Col. Sea fishe.Plani pisces. Col. Pretiosi pisces. Col. Saxatiles. Col. Taciti pisces.Ouid. Capiuntur hamo pisces.Cic.Captare pisces arundine. Oui. To angle for fish.Corrumpere pisces. Vide CORRVMPO. Ducere piscem hamo.Ouid.Euocare escea piscem. Sil. To allure with the baite.Generant oua pisces. Ci. Fishes spawne.Ludit piscis in aqua. Ter. Nactus sum pisces ex sententia. Ter. I haue gotten such fish as I would haue.Suspendere piscem hamo.Ouid.Extructa piscibus mÊsa. Ci. A table wel furnished with fish.Magis mutus qum piscis Hor. Pisces, pro Signo cælesti, frequentius pluraliter declinatur. Col. Cic.Fiscis A quilonins. Col. The signe Pisces in the north parte.Piscis Austrinus. Col.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
piscis, is, m. [etym. dub.; cf. Angl. -Sax. fisk, Germ. Fisch], a fish.I.Lit.: ubi lanigerum pecus piscibus pascit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. cyprio, p. 59 Müll. (Sat. v. 42 Vahl.); id. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 5 Vahl.); Plaut. As. 1, 3, 26; id. Truc. 2, 3, 1: pisces ut saepe minutos magnu' comest, Varr. ap. Non. 81, 11: etsi pisces ut aiunt, ova cum genuerunt, relinquunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 129; Hor. C. 4, 3, 19; Juv. 4, 72.—2.Sing. collect.: pisce vehi quaedam (natarum videntur), Ov. M. 2, 13; Plin. 11, 53, 116, 281: lacus piscem suggerit, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 1; so, piscis femina, Ov. A. A. 2, 482.—II.Transf., as a constellation. A. Pisces, the Fishes, a constellation consisting of 34 stars. Acc. to the myth, Cupid and Venus, during the war of the Titans, were carried for safety across the Euphrales by fishes, who were on this account placed among the stars, Ov. F. 2, 458; Hyg. Astr. 2, 30; 3, 29; Col. 11, 2, 24; 63; cf. nodus, I. B. 7.—B. Piscis major, Avien. Arat. 806. Prob. the same constellation, in the southern heavens, which Verg. G. 4, 234, calls Piscis aquosus; cf. Manil. 1, 428.
