I.a seal, sea-dog, sea-calf (pure Lat. vitula marina), Verg. G. 4, 432: “deformes phocae,” Ov. M. 1, 300; so id. ib. 2, 267; Plin. 9, 7, 6, § 19. Proteus had a span of seadogs: “Protea huc rexisse vias junctis super aequora phocis,” Val. Fl. 2, 319. A grandson of Cephisus is fabled to have been changed by Apollo into this animal, Ov. M. 7, 388.
phōcă , ae, and phōcē , ēs, f., = φώκη,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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