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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lanipendia

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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. 

LANIPEN'DIA. The mistress of a household, or the superintendant in an establishment where the business of spinning and weaving wool was conducted. She weighed and gave out to her slaves or workwomen (quasillariae) a certain quantity of wool which each one was expected to consume in her work per day. (Juv. vi. 476. Schol. Vet. ad l. Paul. Dig. 24. 1. 38.) The illustration (Lanipendia/1.1) shows a female weighing the wool in a pair of scales, from a bas-relief in the Forum of Nerva at Rome, on which various other operations belonging to this branch of industrial labour are represented.

  • Lanipendia/1.1
    Lanipendia/1.1

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