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|lshtext=<b>luscus</b>: a, um, adj. [[root]] luc of lux; [[with]] [[fundamental]] [[idea]] to [[glimmer]]; cf. Gr. λυγη, [[gloom]],<br /><b>I</b> one-eyed: Le. Oculum ego ecfodiam [[tibi]], si [[verbum]] addideris. Sc. Hercle qui dicam [[tamen]]: nam si sic non licebit, [[luscus]] dixero, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 64; id. Curc. 4, 2, 19: [[Appius]] cenabo, inquit, [[apud]] te, huic lusco, familiari meo C. Sestio: uni [[enim]] locum esse [[video]], Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 246; Mart. 4, 65; Gai Inst. 3, 214: cum Gaetula ducem portaret [[belua]] luscum (of [[Hannibal]]), Juv. 10, 157: ambos perdidit [[ille]] oculos, et luscis invidet, id. 10, 228.—Hence, [[with]] one [[eye]] [[shut]], i. e. [[taking]] [[aim]], said mockingly of a [[statue]]: [[statua]] meditatur proelia lusca, Juv. 7, 128; [[half]]-[[blind]], Mart. 9, 37, 10.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>luscus</b>,¹³ a, um, borgne : Pl. Trin. 465 ; Cic. de Or. 2, 246 ; Mart. 9, 37, 10 || [[statua]] lusca Juv. 7, 128, statue borgne [représentant un borgne].
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