Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Flabellum

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'UM (ῥιπίς). A fan. (Terent. Eun. iii. 5. 50.) The fans of the Greek and Roman ladies were made with the leaves of the lotus plant, of peacock's feathers (Prop. ii. 24. 11.), or some expansive material, painted in brilliant colours (Mart. iii. 82.); were not constructed to open and shut, like ours, but were stiff, and had a long handle, the most convenient form for the manner in which they were used; viz. for one person to fan another, a slave being always employed for the purpose. (FLABELLIFER.) The left-hand figure in the illustration (Flabellum/1.1) represents a fan of lotus leaf, from a Pompeian painting; the right-hand one, of peacock's feathers, from a painting discovered at Stabia.

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