strepsiceros

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ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

strepsĭcĕros: ōtis, m., = στρεψικέρως,
I a kind of animal with twisted horns, called by the Africans adax, Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 124; 8, 53, 79, § 214.