Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sabanum

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. 

SAB'ANUM (σάβανον). A linen cloth, employed as a napkin to contain any thing (Pallad. vii. 7. 3.): a towel for rubbing and drying (Veg. Vet. v. 46. 11.), and for wrapping round the body to confine the perspiration after sweating in the vapour bath. Marcell. Empir. 26.