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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Victimarii

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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. 

VICTIMA'RII. Servants or ministers employed at the sacrifice, whose duty it was to kindle the fire, prepare the requisite articles and implements, and hold the victim whilst it received the knock-down blow from the Popa, as exhibited by the annexed engraving (Victimarii/1.1), from a Roman bas-relief. Liv. xl. 29. Val. Max. i. 1. 12. Inscript. ap. Fabretti. p. 450. n. 13.

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