a nut; a nutshell
Latin word, found 10 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Amores 2.6.31: Nux erat esca tibi, causaeque papavera somni,
Catullus, Carmina long_poems.61.133: lusisti nucibus: libet
Suetonius, Divus Augustus 83.1: … urreret †sestertio uel lodicula inuolutus. animi laxandi causa modo piscabatur hamo, modo talis aut ocellatis nucibusque ludebat cum pueris minutis, quos facie et garrulitate amabilis undique conquirebat, praecipue Mauros et Syros …
All forms of nux