Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Funale

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. 

FUNA'LE. A link, torch, or taper, made of the papyrus, or the fibres of other plants twisted together like a rope (funis), and smeared with wax or pitch, as exhibited in the annexed woodcut (Funale/1.1), from a sepulchral marble preserved in the church of St. Justina, at Padua. Isidor. Orig. Cic. Sen. 13. Virg. Aen. i. 731.

2. A contrivance for holding torches of this description, upon which many of them were lit and burnt at the same time, like our chandeliers. Isidor. Orig. xx. 10. 5. Ov. Met. xii. 247.

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  Funale/1.1