Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Taeda

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. 

TAE'DA or TE'DA (δαῖς). A species of pine-tree producing a great quantity of resinous matter; thence a pine torch, made out of slips cut from a part of the tree into which the resinous matter was artificially made to accumulate, and which was particularly employed in marriage ceremonies and processions. (Ov. Virg. Prop.) The illustration (Taeda/1.1) is from a marble-relief, in which it is carried by Hymen; and it will not fail to be observed that it is formed by small scales of bark, in the pattern of a fir cone, and not of wattled laths or twigs, like the FAX.

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