tetter

TETTER

lichen or pure Latin mentagra (Vid: Plin. 26 1 2).

tetter: the gen. term is impĕtīgo, ĭnis, f. (an eruption, scab), of which four kinds are distinguished, Cels. 5, 28, 17: v. ERUPTION: more precisely, mentagra, līchen, ēnis (λειχὴν): Plin. 26, 1, 2 says, lichenas appellavere Graeco nomine, Latine, quoniam a mento (chin) fere oriebatur mentagra: it is also termed vĭtĭlīgo, ĭnis, f.: Cels. 5, 28, 19.