Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Bacillum

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

BACILLUM (βακτήριον). A small staff, stick, or cane; a walking-stick, sometimes as with us artificially bent into form. (Cic. Fin. ii. 11. Juv. Sat. iii. 28. The example (Bacillum/1.1) is from a painting at Pompeii, and represents Ulysses.

2. Varro, R. R. 50. 2. See FALX DENTICULATA.

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  Bacillum/1.1