noun

mustācĕus

gen. mustācei · gender masculine · decl. 2nd

a must-cake; laurel-cake; wedding-cake •

a must-cake or laurel-cake, a kind of wedding-cake mixed with must and baked on bay-leaves: mustaceos sic facito, etc., Cato, R. R. 121; Juv. 6, 200.—Prov.: laureolam in mustaceo quaerere, to look for a laurel-wreath in a cake, i. e. for fame in trifles, Cic. Att. 5, 20, 4.

Perseus ID: n30133 Key: mustaceus