Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cunaria

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

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CUNA'RIA. A nurse, who rocked an infant in its cradle, washed it at its birth, wrapped it in swaddling clothes, &c. (Inscript. ap. Grut. 311. 7. Compare Mart. Ep. xi. 39.) The illustration (Cunaria/1.1) is from a marble bas-relief at Rome.

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