Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tonstrix

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. 

TONSTRIX (κουρεύτρια). A female who practised the trade of a barber; which appears from numerous inscriptions and other passages, not to have been an uncommon employment for women amongst the ancients. Plaut. Truc. ii. 4. 54. iv. 2. 63. iv. 4. 3. Mart. ii. 17. Inscript. ap. Grut. ap. Fabretti.