Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Coprea

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COP'REA (κπρίας). A jester or buffoon; a word first introduced under the Roman emperors (Suet. Tib. 61. Claud. 8. Dio Cass. xv. 28.); in whose palaces such characters were kept, like the kings' jesters of the middle ages.