Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Caduceator

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. 

CADUCEA'TOR. A general name for any person who was sent out from one belligerent party to another, carrying the wand of peace (caduceus); or, as we should express it, the bearer of a flag of truce. The persons of those employed upon such missions were at all times held sacred and inviolable. Liv. xxxii. 32. Cato, ap. Fest. s. v. See also CERYX and FETIALIS.