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mūlĭo , ōnis, m. id.,
I.a mule-keeper, a mule-driver, muleteer; a mule-dealer, mule-hirer (mostly ante-class. and postAug.).
I. Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 159 Müll.; Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 93: “mulionesque cum cassidibus,” Caes. B. G. 7, 45; Suet. Ner. 30; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3; Cic. ap. Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 135; Gell. 15, 4, 3; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 72; Juv. 3, 317.—A sobriquet applied to Vespasian, because his necessities had obliged him to make money by trading, Suet. Vesp. 4.—Prov.: infantior quam meus est mulio, Varr. ap. Non. 56, 11.—
II. Transf., a kind of gnat, an enemy to bees, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 61.
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 (7):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 10.18.3
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.45
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 3.2
    • Suetonius, Nero, 30
    • Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus, 4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 11.61
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 15.4.3
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