aerusco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

aerusco, āre, v. a. [aes],

to get money by going about and exhibiting tricks of legerdemain , to play the juggler : aeruscare: aera undique, id est pecunias, colligere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 24 Müll.—Esp., of mendicant philosophers, Gell. 9, 2; so Sen. Clem. 2, 7, 2.