Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cereus

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. 

CE'REUS. A wax candle, made with the pith of a rush coated with wax; also a torch made of the fibres of papyrus twisted together, and covered with wax. Cic. Off. iii. 20. Plaut. Curc. i. 1. 9. Val. Max. iii. 6. 4. and CANDELA.