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Scalpellum

（σμιλίον). A scalpel; a small surgeon's knife used in cutting away flesh or in opening a vein (Pro Sest. 65; Celsus, ii. 10).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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