snout

snout
subs.
Ar. ῥυγχίον, τό (Ach. 744).

SNOUT

rostrum: An elephant’s snout proboscis. Vid: NOSE.

snout: rostrum: a swine's s., (suis) r., Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23. Also vulgarly of men: cf. Pl. Men. 1, 1, 13: Petr. 75, 10. Dimin. rostellum, Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 99. Phr.: the s. of a pair of bellows, perh. *myxa (used in Mart. 14, 41, for the nozzle of a lamp): v. also NOSE, NOZZLE: an elephant's s. (or trunk), elephantis manus, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 123 (v. TRUNK, PROBOSCIS).