Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Carbasus

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. 

CAR'BASUS (κάρπασος). A fine sort of flax produced in Spain; whence the name is given to anything made from it; as a linen garment (Virg. Aen. viii. 34.); the awning stretched over the uncovered part of a theatre or amphitheatre, as a shield against the sun and rain (Lucret. vi. 109. see VELUM); the sail of a ship (Virg. Aen. iii. 357. VELUM); the Sibylline books, which were made of linen. Claud. B. Gil. 232., &c.