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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Copula

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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. 

COP'ULA. A leash for coupling sporting dogs, as in the example (Copula/1.1), from a bas-relief, representing the funeral of Meleager. Ov. Trist. v. 9.

2. A breast-collar attached to the traces, by which draught horses or mules drew their loads, as in the example (Copula/2.1), from a painting at Herculaneum, after Ginzrot. Apul. Met. ix. p. 185.

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