Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Flabellifer

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. 

FLABELL'IFER. In a general sense, any one who carries a fan (flabellum); the name is specially given to young slaves of the male or female sex (Plaut. Trin. ii. 1. 29.), whose business it was to carry their mistress's fan, and fan her when required. The illustration (Flabellifer/1.1) represents a Cupid as the fan-bearer of Ariadne, lamenting her desertion, in a Pompeian painting; other designs in that city, as well as on fictile vases, exhibit females in a similar capacity.

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  Flabellifer/1.1