Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Agolum

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

AG'OLUM. A long tapering stick used by the Roman drovers and herdsmen, for driving their cattle. (Festus. s. v.) The drovers of the Roman Campagna make use of a similar instrument at the present day, formed by a long straight shoot of the prickly pear, precisely like the example (Agolum/1.1) here given, which is from a painting at Pompeii.

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  Agolum/1.1