Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Incomma

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. 

INCOMMA. A word of doubtful authority, but supposed to imply a post with gradations of feet and inches marked upon it, by which the stature of conscripts was tested, in order to see that they did not fall short of the regular military standard. Gloss. Isidor. Veg. Mil. i. 5. Salmas ad Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 4.