PASTILLUS
PASTILLUS,
PASTILLUM, strictly a small round
cake of fine meal (
Plin. Nat. 18.102),
used in sacrificial offerings (Fest. p. 250). Festus (p. 222) takes it to be
a diminutive of
panis. For the making of these
there was a guild of
pastillarii (
C. I.
L. 6.9765, 9766). In the masculine form the word was used for small
round lozenges (
τροχίσχοι), compounded from
herbs or fruits, and used for medicines (
Plin.
Nat. 20.3) or sweetmeats (Id. 12.131); and especially scented
lozenges of aromatic herbs, eaten to make the breath sweet. (Hor.
Sat. 1.2, 27; 1.4, 92;--
Mart.
1.87; Becker-Göll,
Gallus,
3.367; Blümner,
Technologie, 1.86.)
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G.E.M]
