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truncus ī, m

1 truncus.—Of a tree, the stem, stock, bole, trunk : arborum trunci, Cs.: quid interest inter hominem et truncum? etc.: enodes trunci, V.: inlapsus cerebro, H.: acernus, O.The trunk, body : corporis: recto se attollere trunco, O.: iacet ingens litore truncus, V.—Fig., a stock, blockhead, dunce, dolt : qui potest esse in eius modi trunco sapientia?— A trunk, stem : quae (stirpes aegritudinis) ipso trunco everso omnes elegendae sunt.

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