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LNS

buccula, bucculae

(būcula, būculae)

bucca

noun (f., 1^st declension)

A little cheek or mouth
The beaver, that part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks
two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed

Abbreviations

buccula (būcula), ae, f. dim. bucca. A little cheek or mouth, * Suet. Galb. 4: pressa Cupidinis buccula, App. M. 6, p. 182, 17; 3, p. 137, 40; Arn. 2, p. 73.

— In milit. lang. The beaver, that part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks, παραγναθίς: bucculas tergere, Liv. 44, 34, 8; Juv. 10, 134; Capitol. Max. Jun. 3; Cod. Th. 10, 22, 1.

— Bucculae, two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed, Vitr. 10, 15, 3.