cocles

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

cō̆cles, ĭtis, m. [for scoculus; root ska-; cf. σκιά, σκότος, and oculus (cf. Fleck. in Rhein. Mus. 8, p. 231)],

cognomen of a person blind with one eye , Plin. 11, 37, 55, § 150; so Enn. ap. Varr L. L. 7, § 71; Plaut. Curc. 3, 1, 23.

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