balatus

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

bālātus, ūs, m. [balo],

the bleating of sheep , Lucr. 2, 369: agni Balatum exercent, Verg. A. 9, 62; id. G. 3, 554; Ov. M. 7, 319; 7, 320; Stat. Th. 10, 46.—Also in plur., Ov. M. 7, 540.—Of the bleating of goats , Plin. 20, 14, 55, § 156; Aus. Epigr. 76, 3.

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