Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fusus

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. 

FUSUS (ἄτρακτος). A spindle; usually made of a stick about twelve inches in length, and used with the distaff (colus), for twisting or spinning the fibres of wool or flax into thread (Plin. H. N. xi. 27. Ovid. Met. vi. 22. Tibull. ii 1. 64.); a process described at length under the word NEO. The small figure in the engraving (Fusus/1.1) represents a spindle used by Leda in a Pompeian painting; the other two are from an Egyptian original, the right hand showing the instrument before being used, the other as it would appear with the thread wound round it, after it has been twisted.

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