Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Martiolus

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. 

MAR'TIOLUS. Diminutive of MARCULUS. A common hammer of the smallest kind; such as used by carpenters for driving nails, or hammering and beating out any thing which does not require extraordinary force or labour; like the delicate works in metal, called ἔργα σφυρήλατα by the Greeks. (Pet. Sat. 51. 4.) The example (Martiolus/1.1) is represented on the sepulchral stone of a Roman mechanic.

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