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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Anguilla

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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. 

ANGUIL'LA. A whip made of eel-skin, which was used by the Roman schoolmasters to punish their scholars. (Plin. H. N. ix. 39. Isidor. Orig. v. 27. 15.) The illustration (Anguilla/1.1) is copied from a painting at Herculaneum, which represents the interior of a school-room.

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    Anguilla/1.1

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