Septentrion

Sometimes our ancestors called them the Seven Oxen, the "oxen of the celestial pastures," from which the word septentrion (_septem triones_, seven oxen of labor) is derived. ❋ Camille Flammarion (1883)

Also in the head of that sea of Galilee, toward the septentrion is a strong castle and an high that hight Saphor. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And Ind is divided in three principal parts; that is, the more that is a full hot country; and Ind the less, that is a full attempre country, that stretcheth to the land of Media; and the three part toward the septentrion is full cold, so that, for pure cold and continual frost, the water becometh crystal. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Au levant, au septentrion et au midi, elle a une grande plaine; au ponant, une montagne au pied de laquelle sont batis les faubourgs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

From the Latin word _trio_ (ox of labor) has come septentrion, the seven oxen. ❋ Camille Flammarion (1883)

[21] The lower septentrion, the seven stars of the Great Bear. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

_septentrion_, where he thought he must find land before or beyond the said place: and thus he intended to repair the ships which were already opening from the past heat, and the supplies, of which he had a large quantity, because of the necessity of taking them to this island and the great difficulty in getting them from Castile, and which were becoming worthless and damaged. ❋ Various (1884)

“cold septentrion blasts,” and which, when it was long after transferred to the theatre by Colman, was unable to endure the rough aspect of a British audience. ❋ Cary, Henry F (1846)