Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fissipes

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. 

FIS'SIPES. Cloven footed; whence used to designate a reed pen (Auson. Epist. vii. 50.), which was made, like our own, with a split at the nibs; see the illustration s. ARUNDO, 5.