I.a little lip, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 67; id. As. 4, 1, 52: dentes illidunt saepe labellis, * Lucr. 4, 1080: “Platoni cum in cunis parvulo dormienti apes in labellis consedissent,” Cic. Div. 1, 36, 78: “nec te paeniteat calamo trivisse labellum,” Verg. E. 2, 34; cf.: et roseo terit ore deus mollique labello, Pub. Syr. ap. Wernsd. Poet. L. Min. 2, 388: “digito compesce labellum,” Juv. 1, 160: “extendere,” to pout, thrust out, id. 15, 325: “compara labella cum labellis,” i. e. kiss, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 78.—As a term of endearment: “meus ocellus, meum labellum, mea salus, meum savium,” Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 153; so id. ib. 1, 2, 175.
lăbellum , i, n. dim. 1. labrum,
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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