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- Northern Hemisphere. The English name is a calque of the Latin dies caniculares (lit. "the puppy days"), itself a calque of the ancient Gr**** κυνάδες...
- the hottest days of the summer. The Romans knew these days as dies caniculares, and the star Sirius was called Canicula, "little dog". The excessive...
- the monkey and cat version appears in Simone Majoli's Latin work Dies caniculares (1588), where it is told of the antics of the pet monkey of Pope Julius...
- Italian canon lawyer, bishop and author. His encyclopedic work Dies caniculares (Dog days), covered a wide range of topics in natural history, demonology...