Ocnus or -os, = Ὄκνος (sloth).
- I. The founder of the city of Mantua, Verg. A. 10, 198.
- II. An allegorical picture of Socrales the painter, which represented a man twisting a rope, while an ass kept gnawing it apart, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 137.
Hence, prov., of labor in vain, which never comes to an end, Prop. 4, 3, 21.