Example sentences for: graeculus

How can you use “graeculus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Under this last heading, among the many alleged undesirables in Juvenal's Rome is what he calls in a memorable phrase Graeculus esuriens , the “hungry little Greek.”

  • An Exeter University academic once speculated, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that it might come from the Latin graeculus , translated as Greekling with a derogatory flavour.


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