Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mantellum

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. 

MANTEL'LUM or MANTE'LUM. That which serves as a cloak to conceal any thing; the original of the Italian mantello, and our mantle. Plaut. Capt. iii. 3. 6.