restio

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

restĭo, ōnis, m. [restis].

I A ropemaker , rope-seller , Suet. Aug. 2 fin. ; cf. Fronto , p. 2201 P.—

2 Transf., in a comic lusus verbb., with bucaeda, for one who is scourged with ropes , Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 2. —

II The title of a poem by Laberius , Gell. 10, 17, 2.