Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Agina

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

AG'INA. The socket or eye, to which the beam of a balance is pinned, and in which the upright index (examen, lingula) oscillates to show that the object weighed corresponds exactly with the weight in the opposite scale. (Festus. s. v. Tertull. ad Hermog. 41.) Both the agina and the index affixed perpendicularly on the centre of the beam are shown in the illustration (Agina/1.1), which is taken from an original of bronze. Caylus. iv. 96. 4.

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  Agina/1.1