Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ligo

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. 

LIGO (μάκελλα). A sort of hoe, with a long handle (Ov. Pont. i. 8. 59.), and blade curved rather inwards (incurvus, Stat. Theb. iii. 589.), the edge of which was notched into teeth (fracti dente ligonis, Columell. x. 88.). The annexed figure (Ligo/1.1) is from an engraved gem, on which it appears in the hands of Saturn, represented in the character of an agricultural serf; and, strictly speaking, when in this form it was designated by a name of its own (bidens, δίκελλα), the two-pronged hoe, which would lead us to infer that the regular ligo was furnished with more than two prongs. But it will serve to convey a general notion of the character of the instrument, and to illustrate the epithets applied to it in the passages cited above.

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  Ligo/1.1