The corpus record — Latin

bōx

bōx · m

a sea-fish

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What it meant

bōx — Lewis & Short

bōx, bōcis, m., = bw/c, bo/ac,

I a sea-fish, otherwise unknown, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145. In Paul. ex Fest. p. 30, 6 Müll. (Jan. boca), bocas: bocas = genus piscis a boando id est vocem emittendo appellatur; cf. Isid. Orig. 12, 6, 9.

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