Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Crustarius

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CRUSTA'RIUS. An artist who designed, and modelled crustae for gold and silver plate. (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 55.) They were sold at Rome in shops appropriated for that particular branch of trade, called crustariae tabernae. Festus, s. v.