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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Carnifex

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

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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.

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