adjective
pulchellus
Meaning
- beautiful little
pulchellus or pulcellus, a, um,
I. adj. dim. [1. pulcher], beautiful little:
Bacchae (i. e. Baccharum statuae), Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2; ironic.: audiamus pulcellum puerum, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 262; App. M. 8, p. 184 Bip.—II. Pulchellus, contemptuous surname given to Clodius, in mockery of his surname Pulcher, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 4; 2, 22, 1; cf. Val. Max. 3, 5, 3.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pulchellus (-cellus) adj. dim.
pulcher, beautiful, pretty, little : Bacchae (i. e. Baccharum statuae).—As a mocking surname of Clodius Pulcher, Prettyman .