Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Caducifer

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. 

CADU'CIFER. In general, one who carries the caduceus, but more especially used as a characteristic epithet of Mercury, by which it is implied that he is the messenger of heaven. (Ov. Met. viii. 627. Id. Fast. v. 449.) The illustration (Caducifer/1.1) is from a Roman marble.

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  Caducifer/1.1