bovinator

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

bŏvīnātor, ōris, m. [bovinor].

I A brawler , blusterer , reviler , acc. to the Gloss.: bovinatores θορυβοποιοί, θρύλλον ποιοῦντες ἢ ταραχήν; v. bovinor.—

II = tergiversator, one who seeks evasions (the figure drawn perh. from the holding back of draught cattle), Lucil. ap. Gell. 11, 7, 9; cf. Non. p. 79, 26.