Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Jugumentum

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. 

JUGUMEN'TUM. The lintel of a doorway. (Cato. R. R. xiv. 1. ib. 4.) From the use of the word ζύγωμα, applied to the gates of the citadel at Sardis by Polybius (vii. 16. 5.), Schneider would infer that the jugumentum was something in the nature of a fastening affixed to the outside of a door or gate; but it remains to be proved that the Greek word corresponds with the Latin one, which is certainly used by Cato to designate a component part of a doorcase, whether made of wood or of stone, as in the example (Jugumentum/1.1) which represents a doorway at Pompeii; for in the first passage he mentions it as one of the three members of a wooden doorcase, limina, postes, jugumenta; and in the second, as part of the doorway in a wall, caeteros parietes ex latere, jugumenta, et antepagmenta.

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