Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Equarius

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. 

EQUA'RIUS sc. medicus (ἱππίατρος). A horse doctor, or veterinary surgeon. (Val. Max. ix. 15. 2.) The illustration (Equarius/1.1) represents a veterinary, and shows the ancient manner of bleeding horses, from a Roman bas-relief discovered in the south of France.

2. Absolutely; a groom or stable boy. (Solin. 43.) Same as EQUISO.

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