The corpus record — Latin

dentilegus

dentilegus · m

one who picks up his teeth

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What it meant

dentĭlĕgus — Lewis & Short

dentĭlĕgus, i. m.dens-lego,

I one who picks up his teeth, sc. after they have been knocked out; a tooth-gatherer, a comic word: dentilegos omnis mortalis faciam, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 18.

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