Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Orarium

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. 

ORA'RIUM. A scarf or handkerchief given to the populace by some of the emperors at the Circensian games, to hold up and wave in the air as a sign of encouragement to the drivers. Vopisc. Aurel. 48. August. C. D. xxii. 8. n. 7. Compare Hieron. Ep. 52. 9.