Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Emboliaria

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. 

EMBOLIA'RIA. An actress who came upon the stage between the acts of a play to keep the audience amused by reciting some kind of interlude (embolium, ἐμβόλιον). Plin. H. N. vii. 49. Inscript. ap. Murat. 660. 4.