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|lshtext=<b>musca</b>: ae, f. Sanscr. makshikà, a [[fly]]; Gr. [[μυῖα]], of [[which]] [[musca]], μυἱσκα, [[may]] be a [[dim]]. form; cf. Germ. Mücke; Engl. [[midge]], musquito,<br /><b>I</b> a [[fly]], Varr. R. R. 3, 16: [[puer]], abige muscas, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 247: muscas fugare, Mart. 3, 82, 12: muscas captare ac [[stilo]] praeacuto configere (solebat [[Domitianus]]), Suet. Dom. 3.—Transf., of [[troublesome]] persons.—So of [[inquisitive]], [[prying]] [[people]], Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 26; of obtrusive, [[unbidden]] guests, id. Poen. 3, 3, 76.
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