Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sarcinator

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. 

SARCINA'TOR. One whose trade consists in mending and repairing garments (Lucil. Sat. xxviii. 33. Plaut. Aul. iii. 5. 41. Paul. Dig. 47. 2. 82.); not a tailor, in our sense of that word, for the garments of the ancients did not require to be cut out and fitted like our own, the outer ones being chiefly formed by a large rectangular piece of cloth, the underneath ones of two or more breadths of similar shape, merely sewed together at the sides and top, excepting where openings were left for the arms and head to come through. By such means, and the practice of weaving round upon an upright loom, all the varieties of habiliments exhibited in the course of these pages could be produced.