furcĭfer (noun M) : furca+fero; acc. to furca, II. B.
* A yoke-bearer, as a term of vituperation, usually of slaves, gallows rogue, hang-dog, rascal: impudice, sceleste, verbero, bustirape, furcifer, Sociofraude, parricida, etc.,Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 127; id. Am. 1, 1, 129; id. As. 2, 4, 78; id. Capt. 3, 4, 31; id. Most. 1, 1, 66; 5, 2, 50; id. Mil. 2, 6, 64; id. Ps. 1, 2, 59 al.; Ter. And. 3, 5, 12 Don.; id. Eun. 4, 7, 28; 5, 2, 23; 5, 6, 19; Cic. Deiot. 9, 26; Hor. S. 2, 7, 22 et saep.— Of freemen: id tu tibi, furcifer, sumes,Cic. Vatin. 6, 15; of Piso,id. Pis. 7, 14.

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