Arcas

[ ahr-kuh s ]

/ ˈɑr kəs /

noun Classical Mythology.

a son of Zeus and Callisto, the ancestor of the Arcadians who was set among the stars with his mother as the Little Bear and the Great Bear respectively.

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Examples from the Web for arcas

She saw him and recognized him as her son Arcas, grown to manhood.
The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)|Charles Mills Gayley
On the 5th of that month we got under way from the Arcas, giving ourselves five days in which to make the distance, under sail.
Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States|Raphael Semmes
Her son Arcas, supposing the bear to be an ordinary beast, was about to shoot it, when Jupiter metamorphosed him into a he-bear.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Jupiter vainly sought his missing ladylove, and it was only long afterward that he discovered her and her little bear son Arcas.
Myths of Greece and Rome|H. A. Guerber

It was seventeen days from the time we doubled Cape Catoche, until we left the Arcas.
Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States|Raphael Semmes