Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Clausula

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

CLAU'SULA. The handle of a strigil (Apul. Flor. ii. 9. 2.), or other instrument, when made in such a manner that the hand was inserted into it, so that it formed a ring or guard all round it, as shown by the annexed example (Clausula/1.1), from an original bronze strigil found in the baths at Pompeii. The clausula is thus contradistinguished from capulus, a straight handle or haft, and from ansa, a handle affixed to another object. The word is also allied to claustrum, the staple into which a bolt shoots, to which it has a considerable resemblance.

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  Clausula/1.1