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bovinator

bŏvīnātor, ōris, m. [bovinor].
  • A brawler, blusterer, reviler, acc. to the Gloss.: bovinatores θορυβοποιοί, θρύλλον ποιοῦντες ἢ ταραχήν; v. bovinor.—
  • II = tergiversator, one who seeks evasions (the figure drawn perh. from the holding back of draught cattle), Lucil. ap. Gell. 11, 7, 9; cf. Non. p. 79, 26.

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