Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Verber

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. 

VERBER. The thong of a whip for scourging slaves (Terent. Andr. i. 2. 28. Tibull. i. 9. 22. FLAGELLUM, 1.); of a driving-whip (Virg. Georg. iii. 106. Ov. Met. xiv. 821. FLAGELLUM, 2.); of a sling (Virg. Georg. 1. 309. FUNDA, 1.); of a machine by which large stones or other missiles are forcibly projected (Lucret. iii. 469.).