Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Manduchus

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. 

MANDU'CHUS. A grotesque kind of masked character, with an enormous mouth, set full of teeth, introduced in early times in the Atellane plays, and on rustic theatres, for the purpose of exciting merriment by his ugliness and voracious propensities, which gave rise to the name (Festus, s. v. Plaut. Rud. ii. 6. 51.) The illustration (Manduchus/1.1) is from an original of bronze, in which the teeth are inserted of silver.

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