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The forms _terriculum_ and _terriculamentum_ also occur. Compare the μορμολυκεῖον of the Greeks, Arist., Thesm., 417, and μορμὼ, Arist., Achar., 582; Pax, 474 (vid. Ruhnken's Timæus, in voc., who quotes numerous passages); and Empusa, Ar., Ran., 293. The _Lamiæ_ were monsters, represented of various shapes (λάμια, Arist., Vesp., 1177, from λάμος, vorago), as hags, or vampyres (strigum instar), or with the bodies of women above, terminating in the lower extremities of an ass. Hence ὀνοσκελίς, ὀνοκώλη. Vid. Hor., A. P., 340,
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Neu pransæ Lamiæ vivum puerum extrahat alvo, cum Schol. Cruqu. They were supposed to devour children, or at all events suck their blood. Cf. Tert. adv. Valent., iii. Festus in voc. Manducus, Maniæ. Manducus is probably from mandendo, and was represented with huge jaws and teeth, like our
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Raw-head and bloody-bones. It was probably the mask used in the Atellane exodia. Cf. Juv., iii., 175,
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Cum personæ pallentis hiatum in gremio matris formidat rusticus infans. Plaut., Rud., II., vi., 51,
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Quid si aliquo ad ludos me pro manduco locem? Quapropter? Quia pol clarè crepito dentibus. The _Fauni_ are put for any persons of great antiquity, the inventors of these fables (ἀρχαϊκά, Ar., Nub., 812), just as Picus in Juvenal, viii., 131,
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Pergula (cf. ad Juv., xi., 137) is