Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scissor

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. 

SCIS'SOR. A slave who cut up the viands for the company at an entertainment. He was always expected to carve with skill and science, and a certain sleight of hand; but at the banquet of the ridiculous Trimalchio, the carver is made to flourish his knife and dissect the food with sundry gesticulations, to the sounds and measures of a musical accompaniment. Pet. Sat. 36. 6.