Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sceletus

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. 

SCEL'ETUS (σκελετός). Literally dried or parched up like a mummy (Apul. Apol. pp. 504. 507.); not a skeleton in our notion of the word, for that was termed larva.