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mēlōta

mēlōta · f

a sheepskin

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What it meant

mēlōta — Lewis & Short

mēlōta, ae, or mēlōtē, ōs, f., = mhlwth/,

I a sheepskin (with the wool on): circumierunt in melotis, in pellibus caprinis, Vulg. Heb. 11, 37; Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4, 76. —Collat. form, mēlōtes, Isid. 19, 24, 19; and mēlōtis, idis, f., Ambros. Ep. 15, 9.

Where it came from

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