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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.

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I. a buffoon, punchinello, macaroni, in the Atellane plays
II. Transf., a simpleton, blockhead

• maccus, i, m. [cf. Sanscr. mūkas, dumb; Gr. μῶκος, mockery; also Μῶμος],

I. a buffoon, punchinello, macaroni, in the Atellane plays: in Atellana Oscae personae inducuntur, ut maccus, Diom. p. 488 P.; cf. Inscr. Orell. 2621.—
II. Transf., a simpleton, blockhead: macci et buccones, App. Mag. p. 325, 30.