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Postquam puer morbo abiit, et ipse delphinus periit.
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The grampus whale (species of delphinus) is well known to the natives by the names of pawus and gajah mina; but I do not recollect to have heard any instance of their being thrown upon the coast.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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Caput ifnberbe ad d. pone palmae ramui, ante delphinus.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790
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II. £quus Gothicae caela - turae, fub quo ftclla et delphinus.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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X Tridcns, hinc ct indc delphinus, a de\t globulus.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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L.If. „ Qui Neptuno ihnulacrum faciunt delphinum aut in manu, aut fub pede eius confK« tuere videmus, quod Neptuno gra - tidimum effe arbitrantur. liinc delphinus in manu modo d. modo f.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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AEAc] phinum aiunt in ec delphinus ApoUini facer. —
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
chained_bear commented on the word delphinus
"DELPHINUS, the Dolphin, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, whose stars in the Britannic catalogue are 18."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 120
October 14, 2008