Pompey's head

Usage examples of caput.

Every twenty-seven days, in the sphere above us, the moon moves from caput to cauda and back again.

They could, of course, have worked on under-peopleanimals in the shape of human beings, who did the heavy and the weary work which remained as the caput mortuum of a really perfected economybut it was against the law for animals, even when they were underpeople, to go to a human hospital.

Then only, when once the ponens caput expiravit was announced by the heavy toll of the clock bell, he breathed.

South to north the moon ascends across the ecliptic, and that is the caput dra-conis, the head of the dragon.

That is why you are neither caput nor cauda draconis but rather seventh and least of our order.

The gold torque worn by the caput draconis winked and dazzled in the firelight.

She had thought to teach them, for had not the caput draconis admitted that sheAntoniahad a natural gift for compulsion?

How old, truly, was the caput draconis, who carried herself with the gravity of a woman of great wisdom and age and yet to judge by her face and hair might be any age between twenty and forty?

Irritated, Antonia had to acknowledge the truth of what their caput draconis had said.

Oxonian, on receiving a hint from the squire, gave, with an air of the most comic gravity, an old carol, the first verse of which was as follows Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.

And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes domino.

The points on the ecliptic where it crosses are called the ascending node and the descending node, or caput draconis and cauda draconisthat is, the head and the tail of the dragon.

Magnus, otherwise known to his fellows as Caput, because of his supposed cerebral inflation.

The points on the ecliptic where it crosses are called the ascending node and the descending node, or caput draconis and cauda draconis—.

In a storm of proffered adjectives I stood in the piazza and watched spellbound as the Great Council of Venice marched along the Molo, as the High Mass was sung from the altar of San Marco, as the ships moved out on the glassy waves of the Adriatic, as the brushes dipped to gather up their colors and mix them in the earthen potsrose madder, vermilion, carmine, cerise, cerulean, turquoise, viridian, yellow ocher, burnt umber, quinacridone, citrine, sepia, Caput Mortuum Violet oh, too lovelyand of a thick lacquer, the name Dragon's blood.