rhinoceros
χαῖρ', ὦ μέγ' ἀχρειόγελως ὅμιλε, ταῖς ἐπίβδαις, τῆς ἡμετέρας σοφίας κριτὴς ἄριστε πάντων → all hail, throng that laughs untimely on the day after the festival, best of all judges of our poetic skill
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
rhīnŏcĕros: ōtis, m., = ῥινόκερως.
I Lit., a rhinoceros, Plin. 8, 20, 29, § 71; Mart. Spect. 9; 22; id. Epigr. 14, 53; 14, 52, 2; Curt. 8, 9, 16; 9, 1, 5; Suet. Aug. 43: cornua rhinocerotis, Vulg. Deut. 33, 17; Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 173.—
II Meton., a vessel made of the rhinoceros's horn, Juv. 7, 130.— A nickname for a man with a long nose, Lucil. ap. Non. 25, 30 (v. brochus).— Prov.: nasum rhinocerotis habere, i.e. to turn up the nose, to sneer at every thing, Mart. 1, 3, 6.— Hence, rhīnŏcĕrōtĭcus, a, um, adj., of a rhinoceros: naris, i.e. sneering, mockery, Sid. Carm. 9, 339.
