Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Inscriptus

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. 

INSCRIP'TUS. Branded; in reference to a slave who had a stigma burnt into his forehead, to denote the offence which he had committed. Mart. viii. 75. 9. Compare Pet. Sat. 103. 2. Id. 106. 1.

2. Also, in a negative sense, unmarked; in reference to merchandize, cattle, &c., when smuggled out of port, or across the frontier, without paying the proper duties, i. e. without having the excise or custom-house brand marked upon them. Lucil. Sat. xxvii. 3. Gerlach. Varro, R. R. ii. 1. 15.