mannus

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

†† mannus, i, m. [Celtic], a kind of small Gallic horse, a coach-horse, cob (used esp. for pleasure-drives): agens mannos, Lucr. 3, 1063: si per obliquum similis sagittae (serpens) Terruit mannos, Hor. C. 3, 27, 6; id. Ep. 1, 7, 77: rapientibus esseda mannis, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 49: detonsi, with shorn manes , Prop. 4 (5), 8, 15: obesi manni, Sen. Ep. 87, 9.

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