Lewis Short
vulpes | volp- | vulpis (noun F) : (), (collat. form, nom. , Petr. 58; Avien. 40, 7), cf. Gr. ἀλώπηξ
* A fox.
* Lit., Plin. 28, 11, 46, § 165; Hor. S. 2, 3, 186; id. Ep. 1, 1, 73; id. C. 3, 27, 4 al.
* Trop., cunning, craftiness: animi sub vulpe latentes,Hor. A. P. 437; Pers. 5, 117.—Prov.
* Jungere vulpes, for any absurd or impossible undertaking, Verg. E. 3, 91.
* Transf.: vulpes marina, a kind of shark: Squalus alopecia, Linn.; Plin. 9, 43, 67, § 145.
* Tam facile, quam pirum vulpes comest, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 32.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary