Pastillus
Pastillus, PASTILLUM, strictly a small round cake of fine meal (Plin. Nat. 18.102), used in sacrificial offerings (Fest. p. 250). Festus (p. 222) takes it to be a diminutive of panis. For the making of these there was a guild of pastillarii (C. I. L. 6.9765, 9766). In the masculine form the word was used for small round lozenges (τροχίσχοι), compounded from herbs or fruits, and used for medicines (Plin. Nat. 20.3) or sweetmeats (Id. 12.131); and especially scented lozenges of aromatic herbs, eaten to make the breath sweet. (Hor. Sat. 1.2, 27; 1.4, 92;--Mart. 1.87; Becker-Göll, Gallus, 3.367; Blümner, Technologie, 1.86.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.