Coma Berenices
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Coma Berenices
From Latin
Example Sentences
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On May 9, 2005, Swift detected a flash of gamma rays lasting 0.13 seconds in duration, originating from the constellation Coma Berenices.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The Volospá is as far removed from the courtly odes and their manner and ingenuity as the Marriage Hymn of Catullus from the Coma Berenices.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
It lies south of the Great Bear’s tail, north of Coma Berenices, east of Ursa Major, and west of Boötis.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
The modern reader will not find much to interest him in the Coma Berenices, abounding as it does in mythological allusions.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
It seems Ortalus had requested him to send him his translation from Callimachus, the "Coma Berenices," which for some time, through grief for the death of his brother, he had failed to do.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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