bucculae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →buccula, bucculae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
little cheek; mouth/cheek-piece of a helmet; part of a machine/catapult channel;
dat. sg.gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...truncis adfixa tropaeis lorica et fracta de casside buccula pendens et curtum temone iugum uictaeque triremis aplustre..." - G
Galba
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Augustum puero adhuc, salutanti se inter aequales, apprehensa buccula dixisse: καὶ σὺ τέκνον τῆς ἀρχῆς ἡμῶν παρατρώξῃ..."