Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Antarius

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ANTA'RIUS. Funes antarii; ropes employed in the erection of a mast, column, or any other object of great weight and height. (Vitruv. x. 2. 3.) They were fastened to the head of the column, and to the ground on each side of it at proper distances, in order to keep it steady, and prevent its inclining either way, whilst being erected.