Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Incus

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. 

INCUS (ἄκμων). An anvil, upon which smiths hammer out and fashion their work. (Plin. H. N. vii. 57. Virg. Aen. vii. 629. Hor. Ovid. &c.) It had a projecting horn, upon which angular and circular shapes were formed, and when used was placed upon a wooden block; being in every respect similar to the instrument still employed for the same purposes, as shown by the annexed example (Incus/1.1), which is copied from an engraved gem.

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  Incus/1.1