BUTT Copy link • BUTT 1. Scopus; goal: to aim at a butt, destinatum petere (Liv.): to hit a butt, *scopum ferire or ferire only (Hor.). Point at which the endeavor is directed, propositum: is qui mihi est (fuit, etc, . propositus exitus: finis. Vid: Not scopus in this meaning. To make a butt of one, aliquem ludibrio habere; putare sibi aliqnem pro ridiculo et delectamento. To be one’s butt, ludibrio ease alicui. Blow, ictus. 2. v. cornu ferire, cornu petere. Of a ram, arietare in aliquem. Butting, qui cornu petit, petulcus. 3. cask, dolium, labrum.