Definition of hircus, hircuus, ircus
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LNS
hircus, hircī
(hircuus, hircuī)
(ircus, ircī)
hircus, hircuus, ircus
noun (m., 2nd declension)
  1. a he-goat, buck
  2. a goatish smell, the rank smell of the armpits
Abbreviations
hircus (also hircuus and ircus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 20; and the Sabine form, FIRCUS, Varr. L. L. 5, § 97 Mull.; cf. haedus init.), i, m., a he-goat, buck (cf. haedus, caper). Lit., Verg. E. 3, 8; 91; id. G. 3, 312; Hor. Epod. 16, 34; id. A. P. 220 (Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 60: foedissimum animalium).

— Transf. Like caper, a goatish smell, the rank smell of the armpits: hircum ab alis (sapere), Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 48: alarum, Cat. 71, 1: an gravis hirsutis cubet hircus in alis, Hor. Epod. 12, 5: pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, id. S. 1, 2, 27; 1, 4, 92.

— An epithet applied to a filthy person: hircus, hara suis, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 38: propter operam illius hirqui improbi edentuli, id. Cas. 3, 2, 20.

— Of voluptuous persons, id. Merc. 2, 2, 1; 4; Cat. 37, 5; Poet. Atell. ap. Suet. Tib. 45.
 
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