Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Neurobata

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. 

NEUROB'ATA (νευροβάτης). One who danced upon a very fine but strong cord made of gut, so that he would appear to the spectators at a little distance to tread upon nothing but the air; whereas the regular rope dancer (funambulus) performed his exploits upon a stout rope easily discernible, and, consequently, his art was inferior in point of skill and of the illusion produced. Vopisc. Carin. 19. Firm. Math. 8. 17.