Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dentarpaga

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

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.