Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Funambulus

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. 

FUNAM'BULUS (σχοινοβάτης). A rope dancer. (Terent. Hecyr. Prol. i 4. Compare Hor. Ep. ii. 1. 210.) The illustration (Funambulus/1.1), which represents one of nine figures, dancing on the tight rope, from a painting at Herculaneum (all of whom are in different attitudes, and exhibiting some characteristic feat), indicates the general degree of perfection to which the ancients had carried this art, as the figure is playing upon the double pipes, while he dances on the rope to his own music.

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  Funambulus/1.1