funarius

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

fūnārĭus, a, um, adj. [funis],

I of or belonging to a rope (post-class.): equus, i. q. funalis equus, an extra horse , trace-horse , Isid. Orig. 18, 35, 2.—

II Subst.: Fūnā-rĭus , ii, m., a surname of Gratianus, father of the emperor Valentinianus (so called from his bodily strength, because five men could not drag a rope out of his hands), Aur. Vict. Epit. 45; Amm. 30, 7, 2.