Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ginglymus

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. 

GIN'GLYMUS (γίγγλυμος). Literally a joint which moves in a socket, like the elbow; thence a hinge (Xen. Eq. xii. 6.), the action of which resembles that of a joint in the human frame. The cabinets of antiquities contain numerous specimens of these contrivances, framed in the different patterns in use at this day, and of all sizes. Of the two examples (Ginglymus/1.1) here given, the top one is from Pompeii, the other is preserved in the British Museum. The Latin name is not met with in any of their writers, and consequently requires authority; but the Greek one is undoubted; and the Romans must have had an appropriate name for a hinge, distinct from cardo, which expresses a very different object.

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