buccŭla

I. A little cheek or mouth, * Suet. Galb. 4: pressa Cupidinis buccula, App. M. 6, p. 182, 17; 3, p. 137, 40; Arn. 2, p. 73.—

II. In milit. lang.

A. The beaver, that part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks, παραγναθίς: bucculas tergere, Liv. 44, 34, 8; Juv. 10, 134; Capitol. Max. Jun. 3; Cod. Th. 10, 22, 1.—

B. Bucculae, two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed, Vitr. 10, 15, 3.