maltha
            
          
          maltha, ae, f., = μάλθα, a kind of thick, fatty petroleum from Samosata, fossil tar, the flame of which could be extinguished only with earth, Plin. 2, 104, 108, § 235.— Transf., a kind of varnish or cement made of slaked lime and hog's fat: maltha e calce fit recenti; gleba vino restinguitur:  mox tunditur cum adipe suillo et ficu, Plin. 36, 24, 38, § 181; Pall. 1, 41.— *  Trop., an effeminate person, Lucil. ap. Non. 37, 9.
          
         
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            maltha, ae, f., = μάλθα, a kind of thick, fatty petroleum from Samosata, fossil tar, the flame of which could be extinguished only with earth, Plin. 2, 104, 108, § 235.— Transf., a kind of varnish or cement made of slaked lime and hog's fat: maltha e calce fit recenti; gleba vino restinguitur:  mox tunditur cum adipe suillo et ficu, Plin. 36, 24, 38, § 181; Pall. 1, 41.— *  Trop., an effeminate person, Lucil. ap. Non. 37, 9.
           
          
          
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