flosculus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flosculus, flosculi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
little flower, floweret; the best of anything, the "flower";
nom. sg.
Examples
Satura IX
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...temporis et spes deceptas? festinat enim decurrere uelox flosculus angustae miseraeque breuissima uitae portio; dum bibimus, dum serta..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...beatus. XXIV. ad Iuventium O qui flosculus es Iuventiorum, non horum modo, sed quot aut fuerunt aut posthac..."