Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vidulus

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. 

VI'DULUS. A large wicker-basket covered with leather, and employed for holding a number of minor articles within itself — cistellam in vidulo (Plaut. Rud. iv. 4. 88.), marsupium cum viatico in vidulo (Id. Men. v. 7. 49.); and as a fish-basket (Id. Rud. iv. 3. 54 — 72.), which passage testifies that it was covered with leather.