Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Graphium

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. 

GRAPH'IUM (γραφίον). A sharp-pointed instrument, or sort of graver made of iron or bronze, employed for writing on wooden tablets covered with wax. (Isidor. Orig. vi. 9. Ov. Am. i. 11. 23.) The example (Graphium/1.1) represents an original between eight and nine inches long, found in an excavation at Rome, which is made to open, and shut (top figure), and affords ample testimony to the truth of the anecdotes which speak of persons being wounded, even mortally, with this instrument. Suet. Caes. 82. Id. Cal. 28. Senec. Clem. i. 14.

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  Graphium/1.1