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mustaceus

From LSJ

Μισῶ σοφιστήν, ὅστις οὐχ αὑτῷ σοφός → Odi professum sapere, qui sibi non sapit → Den Weisen hass' ich, der in eigner Sache Tor

Menander, Monostichoi, 332

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mustācĕus: i, m., and mustācĕum, i, n.,
I a must-cake or laurel-cake, a kind of wedding-cake mixed with must and baked on bay-leaves: mustaceos sic facito, etc., Cato, R. R. 121; Juv. 6, 200.—Prov.: laureolam in mustaceo quaerere, to look for a laurel-wreath in a cake, i. e. for fame in trifles, Cic. Att. 5, 20, 4.

Latin > English

mustaceus mustacei N M :: must-cake, a sort of wedding cake

Latin > Chinese

mustaceus, i. m. :: 雜餅。Laureolam in mustaceo quaerere 以小事望榮。