Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Feretrum

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. 

FER'ETRUM and FERET'RUM (φέρετρον). Strictly speaking, a Greek word, which the Romans expressed by capulus (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. vi. 222.); the bier, on which a dead body was carried to the grave, or to the funeral pile (Virg. Aen. vi. 222. Ov. Met. iii. 508.), represented by the illustration (Feretrum/1.1), from a marble tomb at Rome.

2. Same as FERCULUM, 2. Sil. Ital. x. 566. Id. xvii. 630.

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