Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Serrarius

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. 

SERRA'RIUS. A saw-maker (Senec. Ep. 56.), not a sawyer (prista); the termination in arius, according to the usual analogy, describing the person who makes, not the one who uses, the object to which it is added, like calceolarius, coronarius, restiarius, sellarius, and many others enumerated in the Classed Index of trades. Thus Seneca (l. c.) complains of the noise inflicted by such tradesmen on their neighbours; which would scarcely be reasonable if the mere sawing of timber were the nuisance objected to; but the disagreeable sounds produced by constantly filing up the teeth of this instrument (stridor serrae tum, cum acuitur. Cic. Tusc. v. 40.), will be readily admitted to be an intolerable infliction.