Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Digitale

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. 

DIGITA'LE (δακτυλήθρα). A covering to the hand with fingers to it, like our glove. (Varro, R. R. i. 55. 1. Xen. Cyr. viii. 8. 17.) The example (Digitale/1.1) here introduced is copied from Trajan's Column, where it appears on the hands of a Sarmatian; but the passage of Varro is considered doubtful, and some editions read digitabulum, which is interpreted to be an instrument with prongs, like the human hand, affixed to a long handle, and employed in gathering fruit.

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  Digitale/1.1