Ascra

Ascra

1. An ancient town in Boeotia which was the home of the poet Hesiod

• Casar, ascar, ascar-, ACARS, Caras, sacra, SAARC, Arcas, sacar

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄσκρα (Áskra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.kra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.kra]

Ascra f sg (genitive Ascrae); first declension

1. An ancient town in Boeotia which was the home of the poet Hesiod
   • c. 24 BCE, Sextus Propertius, Elegies 2.13.4:

     Amor...iussit et Ascraeum sic habitare nemus.

     Love... ordered me thus to inhabit the groves of Ascra.

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Ascraeus

• “Ascra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ascra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.