bucculas
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;
acc. pl.
Examples
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...truncis adfixa tropaeis lorica et fracta de casside buccula pendens et curtum temone iugum uictaeque triremis aplustre..."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..."