Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fulcrum

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. 

FULCRUM. A stay or support upon which any thing rests; as a staff or walking-stick (Ovid. Pont. iii. 3. 14. BACULUS); the foot of a sofa, couch, or bed (Suet. Claud. 32. Prop. iv. 8. 68. CLINOPUS), whence sometimes put for the bed itself (Prop. iv. 7. 3.); and, in later times, the high pummel in front of a riding-saddle, made upon a tree. (Sidon. Apoll. Ep. iii. 90. SELLA EQUESTRIS.)