I.a pettifogging lawyer, pettifogger, one who depends on legal technicalities for getting the better of his opponent: “leguleius quidam cautus et acutus,” Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236: “formularii, vel ut Cicero ait, leguleii,” Quint. 12, 3, 11.
lēgŭlēïus , i, m. lex,