Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dentarpaga

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. 

DENTAR'PAGA (ὀδοντάγρα). A dentist's instrument for drawing teeth. It was a species of forceps, which Varro designates by the epithet bipensilis; but the precise form of the instrument has not been identified. Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 99.