calamistratus

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

călămistrātus, a, um, adj. [calamister],

curled with the curling-iron , crisped , curled (of men, a reproach for effeminacy; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 100): cinaedus, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 37: coma, Cic. Sest. 8, 18: saltator, id. post Red. in Sen. 6, 13.—Of fops: pueri cincinnatuli et calamistrati, Hier. Ep. 130, 19; so Ambros. Ep. 4, 15.

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