Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Prista

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. 

PRISTA (πριστήρ). A sawyer (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19. § 3). The illustration (Prista/1.1) is from a terra-cotta vase of Etruscan or primitive Italian workmanship; which shows the use of a frame saw, and a simple method of supporting the timber to be cut by means of a stand and prop, without a regular saw pit.

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  Prista/1.1