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|lshtext=<b>mūlĭo</b>: ōnis, m. id.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[mule]]-[[keeper]], a [[mule]]-[[driver]], [[muleteer]]; a [[mule]]-[[dealer]], [[mule]]-hirer ([[mostly]] [[ante]]-[[class]]. and postAug.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 159 Müll.; Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 93: mulionesque cum cassidibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 45; Suet. Ner. 30; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3; Cic. ap. Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 135; Gell. 15, 4, 3; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 72; Juv. 3, 317.—A sobriquet applied to [[Vespasian]], [[because]] his necessities had obliged him to [[make]] [[money]] by trading, Suet. Vesp. 4.—Prov.: infantior [[quam]] [[meus]] est [[mulio]], Varr. ap. Non. 56, 11.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[kind]] of [[gnat]], an [[enemy]] to bees, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 61.