Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Schoeniculae

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. 

SCHOENIC'ULAE. Women who perfumed themselves with a very coarse and common kind of ointment, manufactured from a species of rush (schoenus), possessing odoriferous properties; intended as a contemptuous nickname. Festus, s. v. Varro, L. L. vii. 64. Compare Plaut. Poen. i. 2. 58. schoeno delibutas.