pulpamentum

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

pulpāmentum, i, n. [pulpa].

I The fleshy part of animals , etc., the meat , e. g. of fishes, Plin. 9, 15, 18, § 48.—

II Transf., food prepared mainly from bits of meat , tidbits : nimis vellem aliquid pulpamenti, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 31; id. Curc. 1, 1, 90: mihi ... cubile est terra, pulpamentum fames, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90.—Prov.: lepus tute es et pulpamentum quaeris? you are a hare yourself , and are you hunting game? Ter. Eun. 426; v. lepus: ego semper apros occido, sed alter semper utitur pulpamento, I do the shooting , but he gets the game; I shake the bush , but another catches the bird , Diocl. ap. Vop. Numer. fin.

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