cudgel (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. fustis, is, m. (esp. for beating)2. băculum, băcillum; băcŭlus (esp. for walking) • cudgel (subs.): 1. fustis, is, m. (esp. for beating): mauled with c.s and clubs, male mulcatus fustibus et clavis, Cic.: v. foll. art.: to split a head open with a c., caput aperire fuste, Juv.: a willow c., salignus f., Hor. 2. băculum, băcillum; băcŭlus (esp. for walking): v. stick, staff.
cudgel (v.) Copy link • cudgel (v.): fuste, fustibus verberare, mulcare, Cic.; f. dolare, Hor.: to c. anybody's head well, implere fustibus caput alicujus, Pl.: v. to beat, flog. (N.B.--Fustĭgo is without good authority.)
CUDGEL Copy link • CUDGEL 1. s. baculum (any stick; baculus is post-classical): fustis (for beating): scipio (σκίπων, σκήπων, for walking; but occasionally used as cudgel, Plaut.). To strike anybody on the head with a cudgel, alicujus caput baculo percutere. 2. v. aliquem fusti verberare; fusti in aliquem animadvertere; aliquem petere baculo (to hit him or strike at him with a cudgel or stick). CUDGELLING; e.g., to get a good cudgelling or beating, male mulcari: to give anybody a good cudgelling, male mulcare aliquem (comical only, probe percutere: bene depexum dare, verberibus or fustibus irrigare aliquem).’