musimo

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

mūsĭmo or musmo, ŏnis, m., = μούσμων,

I an animal of Sardinia , prob. the muflone , from which we have the tame sheep, Plin. 8, 49, 75, § 199.—

II Transf.: musimones asini, muli, aut equi breves. Lucil. lib. sexto: pretium emit, qui vendit equum musimonem (i. e. a stallion). Cato Deletorio: asinum aut musimonem aut arietem, Non. 137, 22 sq.; cf. Serv. Verg. G. 3, 446.