Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Bipennifer
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.
BIPEN'NIFER. Bearing, or armed with, the double-bladed axe (bipennis), a weapon especially characteristic of the Amazons, as seen in the illustration (Bipennifer/1.1), from a Greek bas-relief, but also attributed to other persons, as to the Thracian king, Lycurgus (Ov. Met. iv. 22.), and to Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto. Ov. Met. viii. 391.
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Bipennifer/1.1