noun
cottăbus
Meaning
- a clap, stroke
cottăbus, i, m., = κότταβος (a social sport consisting in dashing a liquid upon a brazen vessel; v. Lidd. and Scott under κότταβος; hence humorously transf.),
I. a clap, stroke:
ne bubuli in te cottabi crebri crepent, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 4.