snout Copy link • snout: rostrum: a swine's s., (suis) r., Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23. Also vulgarly of men: cf. Pl. Men. 1, 1, 13: Petr. 75, 10. Dimin. rostellum, Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 99. Phr.: the s. of a pair of bellows, perh. *myxa (used in Mart. 14, 41, for the nozzle of a lamp): v. also nose, nozzle: an elephant's s. (or trunk), elephantis manus, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 123 (v. trunk, proboscis).