I.a little mouth, pretty mouth, sweet mouth (cf.: labium, labellum).
I. Lit. (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “videt oscula, quae, etc.,” Ov. M. 1, 499; 10, 344: delibare, to touch, i. e. to kiss, Verg. A. 12, 434; id. G. 2, 523; Mart. 11, 92, 7; Suet. Aug. 94; Petr. 126; App. M. 3, p. 137, 41.—
II. Transf., a kiss (freq. and class.; “syn.: basium, suavium): utinam continuo ad osculum Atticae possim currere,” Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1: “oggerere,” to give, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 8: “alicui ferre,” id. Ep. 4, 2, 4; “Cic. Fragm. ap. Non.: capere,” to take, Ov. 11, 13, 120: “figere,” to imprint, Verg. A. 1, 687: “carpere,” Ov. H. 11, 117: “sumere,” id. ib. 13, 141: “eripere,” Tib. 2, 5, 91: “jacere,” Tac. H. 1, 36: “accipere et dare,” Ov. H. 15, 132: “detorquere ad oscula Cervicem,” Hor. C. 2, 12, 25: “rapere,” to snatch, steal, Val. Fl. 1, 264: “breve,” a brief, hasty kiss, Tac. Agr. 4: osculi jus, the right of kissing between relatives of both sexes, Suet. Claud. 26: “in osculo sancto,” Vulg. Rom, 16, 16.
