Bestĭus — Lewis & Short
Bestĭus, ii, m.bestia,
I a rough and miserly man, otherwise unknown, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 37; Pers. 6, 37.
The corpus record — Latin
Bestius
Bestius · m
a rough and miserly man
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Where it lives
What it meant
In the wild
- Bestius Persius, Saturae 6.37
- Bestius Horace, Epistulae 1.15.37
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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