Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Virgula

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. 

VIR'GULA. Diminutive of VIRGA; a small branch (Nepos. Thras. 4.); a magic wand (Cic. Off. i. 44. VIRGA, 5.); a metal rod, forming the rattle of a sistrum (Apul. Met. xi. p. 240. SISTRUM); a drum-stick. (Isidor. Orig. iii. 21. 14. SYMPHONIA, 2.)