palitans

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

pālĭtans, antis, Part., from the obsol. palito,

wandering about : quom (haec oves) eunt sic a pecu palitantes, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 4; v. Ritschl ad h. l.