Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Harpaginetulus

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. 

HARPAGINE'TULUS. (Vitruv. vii. 5. 3.) The reading of this word is generally given up as corrupt; but a plausible authority for its genuineness has been suggested by one of the paintings at Pompeii (Pitture d' Ercolano, tom. i. p. 212.), which, instead of a regular frontispiece over a row of columns, presents a fanciful elevation covered all over with ornaments resembling so many little hooks (harpaginetuli, dim. of harpagines); which, it is thought, may be the objects referred to by Vitruvius.