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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutica

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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. 

SCUT'ICA. A whip with a thong made of leather (Mart. x. 62.), whence the name (from the Greek σκυτικός). As an instrument of punishment it was sharper than the switch (ferula), but milder than the scourge (flagellum, Hor. Sat. i. 3. 119. Juv. vi. 479., where all the three words are instanced distinctively). The example (Scutica/1.1) is from a marble bas-relief.

  • Scutica/1.1
    Scutica/1.1

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