Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mansuetarius

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. 

MANSUETA'RIUS (τιθασσευτής). A tamer of wild animals; who not only rendered them tractable and docile, but also taught them to perform certain exercises and tricks. (Lamprid. Elag. 21. Compare Senec. Ep. 85.) The example (Mansuetarius/1.1), from an engraved gem, shows one of these men training or showing off a learned bear. His right arm, which flourishes a whip, is quite bare; but the left one, from which two pieces of meat are extended, as well as the belly, is protected with a sleeve and girth, composed of rings of metal or leather.

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  Mansuetarius/1.1