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buccula

buccula, the beaver, mouthpiece of a helmet

buccŭla (būcŭla), ae, f. dim. [bucca].
  • A little cheek or mouth, * Suet. Galb. 4: pressa Cupidinis buccula, Ap. Met. 6, 22, 6; 3, 19, 16; Arn. 2, p. 73.—
  • II In milit. lang.
    • A The beaver, that part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks, παραγναθίς: bucculas tergere, Liv. 44, 34, 8; Juv. 10, 134; Capitol. Max. Jun. 3; Cod. Th. 10, 22, 1.—
    • B Bucculae, two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed, Vitr. 10, 15, 3.

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