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Pollinctor

An undertaker's assistant who washed and anointed the corpse, and prepared it either for burial or for the funeral pile (Mart.x. 97).

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

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    • Martial, Epigrammata, 10.97
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