Lewis Short
Antĕ-cănis (noun M) : transl. of Προκύων
* A constellation, the Lesser Dog-star, so called as rising before the Dog-star: Antecanis Graio Procyon qui nomine fertur,Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 114; id. Arat. 222; cf. Plin. 18, 28, 68, § 268.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary