Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Quasillariae

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. 

QUASILLA'RIAE. Female slaves engaged in the spinning department of an ancient household, whose duties consisted in carrying the baskets of wool (quali, quasilli) to the spinners and weavers, while they were occupied with their tasks. They formed the lowest rank in the household, merely attending upon other slaves, and not being themselves skilled in any branch of industrial art (Pet. Sat. 132. 3. Inscript. ap. Grut. 648. 5.). The illustration (Quasillariae/1.1) represents two females of this class with the basket between them, from a frieze in the forum of Nerva at Rome, on which various processes connected with the arts of spinning and weaving, and different classes of workwomen, are sculptured.

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  Quasillariae/1.1