Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Festuca

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. 

FESTU'CA. A slight rod, with which the lictor of a praetor touched the head of a slave whose owner had restored him to freedom. (Plaut. Mil. iv. i. 15. Id. Pers. v. 174.) Also called VINDICTA.