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măpālĭa , ĭum, n. Punic,
I.huts, cottages of the Africans: mapalia casae Punicae appellantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 146, 25 Müll.; so ib. p. 147; cf.: “aedificia Numidarum agrestium, quae mapalia illi vocant, oblonga, incurvis lateribus tecta, quasi navium carinae sunt,” Sall. J. 18, 8: “ex oppidis et mapalibus,” id. ib. 46, 5: “cum mapalibus pecoribusque suis persecuti sunt regem,” Liv. 29, 31: “et raris habitata mapalia tectis,” Verg. G. 3, 340; Sil. 17, 89; Mart. 10, 20, 8.—In sing., Aus. Per. Odyss. 16.—Collect. coït e sparso concita mapali Agrestum manus, Val. Fl. 2, 460.—
II. Transf.
A. A house of ill-repute, Petr. S. 58, 13.—
B. Useless things, follies, Sen. Apoc. 9, 1.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.340
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 46
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 18
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 31
    • Petronius, Satyricon, 58
    • Seneca, Apocolocyntosis, 9
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2.460
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 10.20
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