Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sutor

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. 

SU'TOR (ῥάπτης). A leather-closer (Plaut. Aul. 1. 1. 34. Ib. iii. 5. 39. Cic. Fl. 7.); that is, one who sews leather with an awl (subula) and a bristle (seta. Isidor. Orig. x. 263. xii. 26. xix. 34. 1.); the particular kind of work being often pointed out by a distinguishing epithet, as sutor crepidarius (Sempron. Asell. ap. Gell. xiii. 21. 3.); sutor caligarius, (Inscript. ap. Grut. 649. 1.) &c.