Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Haphe

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. 

HAPH'E (ἁφή). The yellow sand sprinkled over wrestlers after they were anointed, in order that they might obtain a firm hold upon each other (Mart. vii. 67.); hence a cloud of dust raised in walking (Seneca, Ep. 57.), with which Seneca complains that he was smothered in the Grotto of Pausilipo. In the first illustration to the article LUCTA, a basket is seen on the ground between the wrestlers, in allusion to the practice described.