Meaning of vespillo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. an undertaker who buries paupers
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2. A Roman cognomen — famously held by
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3. a ghoul, graverobber
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4. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
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5. Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, a Roman politician
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Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: pollīnctor /pollictor, libitīnārius”

“Vespae et vespillones dicuntur, qui funerandis corporibus officium gerunt, non a minutis illis volucribus, sed quia vespertino tempore eos efferunt, qui funebri pompa duci propter inopiam nequeunt. Hi etiam vespulae vocantur.”

They are called vespae and vespillones, who perform the function of burying corpses, not from those little flying creatures, but because they carry out in the evening [vespertino tempore] those who because of poverty cannot be carried in a funeral procession. They are also called vespulae.

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