Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Carnifex

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'NIFEX. The public executioner, who inflicted torture and scourging upon criminals, and executed the condemned by strangling them with a rope. Plaut. Capt. v. 4. 22. Suet. Nero, 54.