Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ceroma

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

CERO'MA (κήρωμα). Properly, an unguent, made of oil and wax compounded together, with which the bodies of wrestlers were anointed previously to being rubbed over with fine sand (Mart. Ep. vii. 32.); whence the same term is also used to designate the chamber in which this operation was performed. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 2. Senec. Brev. Vit. 12.