Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ansula

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

AN'SULA. Diminutive of ANSA; applied in all the sense illustrated under that word. Valerius Maximus (viii. 12. 3.), in relating the story about Apelles and the cobbler, uses the diminutive ansulae instead of ansae, employed by Pliny (H. N. xxxv. 36. § 12.); and in the illustration to ANSA (3), it will be observed that there are in reality a number of smaller loop-holes under the larger ones. That wood-cut will, therefore, afford an example both of the ansa and ansula strictly taken.