Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lorarius

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. 

LORA'RIUS. A slave who inflicted the punishment of flogging upon his fellow slaves with twisted ropes or thongs of leather, at the command of his master. A character of this kind was frequently introduced upon the Roman comic stage (Gell. x. 3. 8. Plaut. Capt. Act. i. Sc. 2.), and is exhibited in the illustration (Lorarius/1.1) annexed, from a marble bas-relief, representing a scene from some play. The entire composition contains three more figures, a young girl playing the double pipes, and two old men, one of whom, the master of the slave, is about to chastise him in a fit of anger with his stick, but is held back by his friend; whilst the slave, in flying from his master, falls into the hands of the lorarius, who is represented with a twisted thong in his raised arm, with which he is about to punish his crouching comrade.

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