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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Anulatus

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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. 

ANULA'TUS and ANNULA'TUS. In general, having or being furnished with rings; whence

1. Anulati pedes, having fetters on the feet, in the manner of the farming slaves amongst the Romans, who worked in chains (Apul. Met. ix. p. 184.), as in the example (Anulatus/1.1), from an engraved gem.

2. Anulatae aures. Ears with rings in them (Plaut. Poen. v. 2. 20.), as in the example (Anulatus/2.1), from a Pompeian painting.

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