Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Botulus

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

BOT'ULUS (φύσκη). A sort of sausage meat or black pudding, for it was prepared with the blood of the animal (Tertull. Apol. 9.), which appears to have been prized more especially by the common people, and such gentry as Trimalchio of Petronius. Mart. xiv. 72. Gell. xvi. 7. 3. Petr. Sat. xlix. 10.