The corpus record — Latin

hirculus

hirculus · m

A little goat

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

hircŭlus — Lewis & Short

hircŭlus, i, m.dim.id..

I A little goat, Auct. Priap. 86, 16 (Ps.-Catull. 19, 16). —

II A plant, otherwise unknown, Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 46.

In the wild

hirculus Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 3.16
hirculus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.12.p3

Where it came from

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