scurror

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

scurror, āri, v. dep. n. [scurra, II.],

to act the part of a jester; to play the buffoon (Horat.): scurror ego ipse mihi, populo tu, I play the buffoon on my own account , to please myself , Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 19: scurrantis speciem praebere, of a buffoonish parasite , id. ib. 1, 18, 2.

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