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Cascellĭus (Casell-), a, the name of a Roman gens, Varr. L. L. 9, § 71, p. 145 Bip.; Cic. Balb. 19, 45; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 5.
Esp.: A. Cascellius, a distinguished Roman lawyer in the time of Augustus, Hor. A. P. 371; Macr. S. 2, 6; Val. Max. 6, 2, 12; Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 45; Spald. ad Quint. 6, 3, 87.
Hence, Cascellianum judicium, Gai Inst. 4, 166; cf. id. ib. 4, 169.
cāsĕārĭus, a, um, adj. [caseus], pertaining to cheese, cheese-: taberna, in which cheese was smoked and kept, Dig. 8, 5, 8, § 5.
cāsĕātus, a, um, adj. [caseus], mixed with cheese: polenta, App. M. 1, p. 103, 35: montes, where much cheese was made, Hier. Ep. 66, 10.
căsellŭla, ae, f. dim. [casa], a little hut (late Lat.), Ennod. Ep. 8, 29.
* cāsĕŏlus, i, m. dim. [caseus], a small cheese, Verg. Copa, 17.
cāsĕus, i, m. (cāsĕum, i, n., Cato, R. R. 76, 3 and 4; Plaut. and Nov. ap. Non. p. 200, 9 sq.), cheese, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3; Col. 7, 8, 1; 12, 12 sq.; Pall Mai, 9; Plin. 11, 42, 97, § 240 sq.; Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 72; Cic. Sen. 16, 56; Ov. F. 4, 371 al.: facere, Varr. l. l.: premere, Verg. E. 1, 35: figurare, Plin. 16, 38, 72, § 181.
As a comic term of endearment: molliculus and dulciculus caseus, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 157 and 179.