Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Canis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CANIS. A chain; but whether of any particular description is doubtful; though probably not, as the expression may have originated in a play upon the words catella, catellus. Plaut. Cas. ii. 6. 37. Becker, Gallus, p. 232. transl.

2. The worst throw upon the dice; i.e. when all aces were turned up. Suet. Aug. 71.