Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Edolatus

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. 

EDOLA'TUS. Shaped, and cut out of the rough with a dolabra (Columell. viii. 11. 4. and DOLATUS); hence figuratively applied to anything which is finished with great care and nicety. Cic. Att. xiii. 47. Compare Varro, ap. Non. p. 448.