Orcades
Orcădes, um, f.,
- islands near Scotland, now the Orkneys, Mel. 3, 6, 7; Tac. Agr. 10; Plin. 4, 16, 30, § 103.—Acc. plur.: Orcadas, Juv. 2, 161.
Orcades, um, f., Inseln bei Schottland, jetzt die Orkneys-Inseln, Mela 3, 6, 7 (3. § 54). Plin. 4, 103: Akk. Plur. Orcadas, Iuven. 2, 161. Oros. 7, 6, 10.
~as ‥ insulas ultra Brittanniam in oceano positas Romano adjecit imperio
destinavit ex suis ‥ ad insulas que procul sunt, versus Orchades, Norwagiam, Ysalandam
Orchades,Orcheneheie
testibus: ‥ Willelmo comite Orchadie et domino de Sanctoclaro
pro expensis quinque falconariorum domini regis missorum in ~ia
apud Scottos, ~as Irosque ‥ celeberrimus habebatur
Orcădes, (15) um, f. , les Orcades, îles au nord des îles Britanniques : Plin. 4, 103 ; Juv. 2, 161.
ORCADES
O´RCADES (Ὀρκάδες νῆσοι, Ptol. 2.3.31), a group of small islands lying off the northern extremity of Britannia Barbara. According to Ptolemy (l. c.) and Mela (3.6.7) they were 30 in number; Pliny (Plin. Nat. 4.16. s. 30) reckons them at 40; Orosius (Oros. 1.2) at 33, of which 20 were inhabited and 13 uninhabited. This last account agrees very nearly, with that of Jornandes (B. Get. 1), who makes them 34 in number. See also Tacitus (Agric. 10) and the Itinerary (p. 508). The modern Orkney and Shetland Islands.
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