Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Falcifer

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. 

FAL'CIFER. Bearing a scythe or a sickle; both of which implements were emblematically ascribed by poets and artists to old Saturnus, in allusion to his having first introduced agriculture into Italy, or to his mythical character, as the personification of Time (Cronos, Κρόνος), the destroyer of all things. (Ovid, Ib. 216. Macrob. Sat. i. 7. and 8.) The latter is introduced in the illustration (Falcifer/1.1), as of less common occurrence, from a medal struck in honour of Heliogabalus.

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