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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Clinopus

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

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CLI'NOPUS (κλινόπους). The foot of a bedstead. (Lucil. ap. Macrob. Sat. vi. 4.) The ancient bedsteads were commonly supported upon four legs, like our own, as in the illustration (Clinopus/1.1), from a Pompeian painting.

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