gypso

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

gypso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [gypsum],

to cover or coat with gypsum , to plaster : opercula, Col. 12, 39, 2: vas, id. ib. 43.—Poet.: gypsati pedes, the feet of a prisoner marked with gypsum , to show that he was to be sold for a slave , Tib. 2, 3, 60; Ov. Am. 1, 8, 64.— Hence, gypsātus , a, um, P. a., covered or coated with gypsum : quibus illa (Medea) manibus gypsatissimis persuasit, ne sibi illae vitio verterent, quod abesset a patria, with hands thickly coated with gypsum (of actors who played women's parts), Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1; Petr. 34.