Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Alipilus

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. 

ALIP'ILUS (παρατίλτριος). A slave attached to the baths, or kept by private persons for the purpose of plucking out the straggling hairs from any parts of the body, or under the arm-pits. Both males and females were employed for this purpose. Seneca, Ep. 56. Compare Juv. Sat. xi. 157. Cratin. Ωρ. 2.

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