bovinator

bŏvīnātor, ōris, m. [bovinor].

I.

A brawler, blusterer, reviler, acc. to the Gloss.: bovinatores thorubopoioi, thrullon poiountes ê tarachên; v. bovinor.—

II.

= tergiversator, one who seeks evasions (the figure drawn perh. from the holding back of draught cattle), Lucil. ap. Gell. 11, 7, 9; cf. Non. p. 79, 26.