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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Specillum

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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. 

SPECIL'LUM (μήλη). A surgeon's probe, for sounding wounds, and other purposes. (Cic. N. D. iii. 22. Celsus, vii. 8. Id. vi. 9.) The example (Specillum/1.1) is from an original of iron, six inches long, which was found in the house of a surgeon at Pompeii.

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