Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sistratus

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. 

SISTRA'TUS. One who carries the Egyptian rattle (sistrum); thence, by implication, a priest or priestess of Isis, who made use of that instrument in their religious ceremonies, holding it up and shaking it with the right hand, in the manner exhibited by the annexed figure (Sistratus/1.1) from a Pompeian painting, in which various classes of the Egyptian priesthood are represented. Mart. xii. 29.

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  Sistratus/1.1