Adonis, gardens of | mythological garden of fertility |
argument | proposition, logical deduction |
astronomical | astrological, interpreting the heavens |
Charybdis | [pron: ka'ribdis] mythological whirlpool in the Straits of Messina which swallowed ships whole |
chop logic | contentious arguer, disputatious wretch |
chopped logic | contentious arguer, disputatious wretch |
Cocytus | [pron: ko'siytus] one of the mythological rivers of the underworld, which souls of the dead must cross |
conclusion | inference, deduction, logical conclusion |
dog-days | hottest days of the year [associated with the astrological position of Sirius, the Dog-star] |
Elysium | mythological location of heaven |
ensue | follow [especially, as a logical outcome] |
figure | astrological diagram, horoscope |
holding | logic, maintaining, consistency |
Lethe | [pron: 'leethee] a mythological river of the underworld, causing oblivion to those who drank from it |
liberal arts | the trivium [grammar, logic, rhetoric] and quadrivium [arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy] |
position | [in logic] affirmation, assertion, hypothesis |
Styx | the principal mythological river of the underworld |