pastillus

pastillus, i, m. dim. [panis], a little loaf or roll: pastillus forma panis parvi utique deminutivum est a pane, Paul. ex Fest. p. 222 Müll.—

II.

Transf., medicine in the form of a round ball or cake, a lozenge, troche, trochisch, Plin. 22, 12, 14, § 29: emplastra pastillique, quos trochiskous Graeci vocant, Cels. 5, 17, 2; cf. id. 5, 20: sucum in sole coctum dividunt in pastillos, Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126:

digerere aliquid in pastillos,

id. 12, 27, 60, § 131:

in pastillos cogere,

id. 20, 1, 2, § 3:

densare in,

id. 25, 13, 95, § 152:

diluere in,

id. 25, 12, 91. § 143.—Also of aromatic lozenges, used to impart an agreeable smell to the breath:

pastillos Rufillus olet,

Hor. S. 1. 2, 27; 1, 4, 92; Mart. 1, 88, 2.