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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tentipellium

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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. 

TENTIPEL'LIUM (καλάπους). Literally, that which stretches leather, whence a shoemaker's last (Festus, s. v.), over which the leather is strained, as in the annexed example (Tentipellium/1.1) from a painting at Herculaneum. It is probable that this was only a colloquial term of the trade and common people; for Horace and the Digest use the word forma for the same object.

2. A cosmetic laid over the face for taking out wrinkles, by tightening the skin (Festus, s. v.); which usage of the word, as well as the former one, has an air of colloquialism.

  • Tentipellium/1.1
    Tentipellium/1.1

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