Orcădes, um, f.,
islands near Scotland , now the Orkneys , Mel. 3, 6, 7; Tac. Agr. 10; Plin. 4, 16, 30, § 103.— Acc. plur. : Orcadas, Juv. 2, 161.
O´RCADES(Ὀρκάδες νῆσοι, Ptol. 2.3.31), a group of small islands lying off the northern extremity of ...
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