Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scandula

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. 

SCAN'DULA or SCIN'DULA (σχίδαξ). A shingle; i. e. a small board about a foot long, employed in early times instead of tiles, for covering the roof of a house. Shingles continued to be commonly used at Rome until the period of the war with Pyrrhus. Plin. H. N. xvi. 15. Pallad. i. 22.