clanculum

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

clancŭlum, adv. and prep. dim. [clam],

I secretly , privately (ante-class. but freq.).

α Adv.: aucupemus ex insidiis clanculum, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 31: abire a legione, id. Am. 1, 3, 25: noctu advenire, id. Bacch. 2, 3, 83; 3, 1, 8; id. Cas. 2, 8, 8: congerere aliquod, Ter. Eun. 309: mordere, id. ib. 411; 589; 602: agere inter se, id. Heaut. 472; id. Phorm. 873.—*

β Prep. with acc.: clanculum Patres, Ter. Ad. 52; cf. clam.

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