palinurus in English

noun

device for directly obtaining the true bearing of the sun and the variation of the compass; family of lobsters of arthropods

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1. He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst.