Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Halteres

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. 

HALTE'RES (ἁλτῆρες). Heavy weights of stone or lead, like our dumb-bells, intended to increase the muscular exertion of gymnastic exercises, being held in each hand whilst leaping, running, dancing, &c. (Mart. vii. 67. Id. xiv. 49. Compare Senec. Ep. 15. and 56. Juv. vi. 421.) The illustration (Halteres/1.1) represents a youth in the gymnasium lifting a pair of halteres from the ground, with two examples of the different forms in which they were made on the left hand of the engraving, all from designs on fictile vases: the large one at the top will afford a specimen of the massa gravis of Juvenal (l. c.).

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  Halteres/1.1