Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Albatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ALBA'TUS. Clothed in white. Thus in the Circensian games, auriga albatus (Plin. H. N. viii. 65.), a driver who wore the white colour, or belonged to the white company (factio albata).