pistris | pristis | pistrix | pristix (noun F) = πίστρις, πρίστις: or , (also or , ĭcis), , = .
* Lit., any sea-monster; a whale, shark, sawfish: postrema immani corpore pistrix (of Scylla),Verg. A. 3, 427: in Indico mari pristes ducenum cubitorum,Plin. 9, 3, 2, § 4: jamque agmine toto Pistris adest,Val. Fl. 2, 530: marina pistrix,Flor. 3, 5, 16.
* Transf.
* The constellation of the Whale: ad Pistricis terga,Cic. Arat. 152: Auster Pistrin agit,German. Arat. 358.
* A species of swift-sailing ship, Quadrig. ap. Non. 535, 26; Liv. 35, 26, 1.
* Name of a ship in the fleet of Aeneas, Verg. A. 5, 116.

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