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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fax

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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. 

FAX (φανός). A torch; which was made out of a piece of resinous wood cut into a point, and dipped into oil or pitch; or of tow impregnated with wax, tallow, pitch, rosin, or any inflammable materials enclosed in a tube of metal, or in a bundle of wattled laths (faculae), as shown by the illustration (Fax/1.1), from the Column of Antoninus. Virg. Georg. i. 291. Liv. xxii. 16. Plin. H. N. xix. 7.

  • Fax/1.1
    Fax/1.1

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