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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lancula

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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. 

LAN'CULA. Diminutive of LANX; and especially the scale, which was appended when necessary to one end of a Roman steelyard (statera). (Vitruv. x. 3. 4.) The illustration (Lancula/1.1) shows two steelyards found in Pompeii; one with a scale affixed to it, the other without the scale, but with a hook for holding the objects to be weighed.

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