Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Funalis

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. 

FUNA'LIS sc. Equus (παρήορος, σειραφόρος). An out-rigger or trace-horse in a carriage drawn by more than two horses. (Stat. Theb. vi. 462. Isidor. Orig. xviii. 35. funarius.) The traces were made of ropes, as is still the practice in Italy, which gave rise to the term. When the carriage had four horses attached, there were two out-riggers, one on each side of the yoke horses (jugales); and then the one on the right, or off horse, was called dexter jugalis (δεξιόσειρος); the left hand one, or near horse, sinister or laevus funalis (Suet. Tib. 6. Auson. Epitaph. xxv. 9.). The illustration (Funalis/1.1) is taken from a painting at Herculaneum.

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