Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Insubulum

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. 

INSUB'ULUM (ἀντίον). The cloth-beam of a weaver's loom, round which the cloth is rolled, when woven to a greather length than the height of the loom. It goes by a similar name in Italy at the present day, where it is called "il Subbio." It was sometimes placed at the top of the loom, as in the annexed example (Insubulum/1.1), from an Egyptian painting, where it is seen with the cloth rolled under it under the yoke (jugum); and sometimes at the bottom, accordingly as the woof was driven upwards or downwards, by the comb or batten (pecten, sphata), both of which modes were practised by the ancients. Isidor. Orig. xxix. 1. Gloss. Philox. Pollux. vii. 36. x. 125. Eustath. in Hom. Od. xiii. 107. Aristoph. Thesm. 822.

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