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mastruca

mastruca · f

a garment made of skins, a sheepskin, a skin

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Where it lives

Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

mastrūca — Lewis & Short

mastrūca (mastrūga), ae, f.Sardinian; v. infra,

I a garment made of skins, a sheepskin, a skin: mastrucam, quod Sardum est, inridens Cicero ex industria dixit, Quint. 1, 5, 8: mastruca vestis Sardonica ex pelliculis ferarum, de qua Cicero pro Scauro: Quem purpura regalis non commovit, eum Sardorum mastruca mutavit? Isid. Orig. 19, 23, 5 (Orell. Cic. Fragm. Scaur. § 45, d, p. 268); so Prud. Symm. 2, 695.— As a term of abuse, a sheepskin, a ninny, Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 34.

In the wild

mastruca Cicero, Pro M. Scauro 45h
mastrucam Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.8

Where it came from

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