vitellus

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He was covered with dust, and panted so violently that he could scarcely utter the single word: "Vitellus!"

From Herodias by Flaubert, Gustave

Was its founder Augustus, or Vitellus, or Antoninus, or Maximian, or the Republic of Verona?

From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean

Ovum tegitur testa, 12. sub qua est Albumen, 13. in hoc Vitellus, 14.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles

The rapid downfall of Galba, Otho, and Vitellus, taught the armies to consider the emperors as the creatures of their will, and the instruments of their license.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart

Vitellus, vī-tel′us, n. the yolk of an egg.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various