The writing incised with thestilus could be easily obliterated by smoothing the wax, and the tabula rasa was thus rendered available for a fresh inscription.
The authentic deed was inscribed with the stilus on the waxed pages 2 and 3; and the first two leaves were then bound round with three twisted threads which passed down the groove so as to close the deed from inspection.
It was with his stilus that Cassius stabbed Caesar in the senate-house.
Despite her blindness, she had therefore acquired in childhood, though imperfectly, the art to write with the sharp stilus upon waxen tablets, in which her exquisite sense of touch came to her aid.
In fact, under the appearance of a literary instrument, the Romans carried about with them in that same stilus a very sharp and formidable weapon.
With that, as if to drown compunction, he shouted yet more loudly; and drawing from the girdle of Glaucus the stilus it contained, he steeped it in the blood of the murdered man, and laid it beside the corpse.
They give Glaucus one chance, in consideration of the circumstances; they allow him, against the lion, the use of the same stilus wherewith he smote the priest.
They anointed his body, completely naked, save by a cincture round the loins, placed the stilus (vain weapon!
It was customary, as I have before said, for men at that time to carry abroad with them the tablets and the stilusattached to their girdle; and with the girdle they were put off when at home.
A scribe could write on the soft white metal with a sharp stilus almost as easily and rapidly as if he were using pen and ink on paper, and the manuscript thus produced would have the advantage of extreme durability.
The reverse end of the stilus was made flat or in the shape of a small ball so that it could be used to make corrections by smoothing out words or letters which had been erroneously scratched in the soft wax.
Though the coating of wax has nearly all perished, the sharp stilus has marked through on to the wood behind the wax, so that the writing is still legible.
A far more probable suggestion is that the clay tablet and stilus reached Crete from Babylonia.
Through its introduction into Crete the Babylonian tablet may probably be regarded as the direct ancestor of the wax tablet and stilus of the Greeks and Romans.
Tablets with architect's rule and stilus from the statues B and F of Gudea 66.
He expatiates on the merits of the Pirckheimer family generally, and says Charitas is following the example of her relatives in preferring a book to wool, a pen to the distaff, a stilus to a needle.
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