mustaceus

mustācĕus, i, m., and mustācĕum, i, n.,

a must-cake or laurel-cake , a kind of wedding-cake mixed with must and baked on bay-leaves: mustaceos sic facito, etc., Cato R. R. 121; Juv. 6, 200.—Prov.: laureolam in mustaceo quaerere, to look for a laurel-wreath in a cake , i. e. for fame in trifles , Cic. Att. 5, 20, 4.