Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Stimulus

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. 

STIM'ULUS (κέντρον). A goad or stick with an iron prick at the end, employed for driving animals, oxen, horses, mules, and slaves. (Tibull. i. 1. 10. Columell. ii. 2. 26. Sil. Ital. vii. 702. Plaut. Most. i. 1. 54.) The example (Stimulus/1.1) is from a terra-cotta at Veletri, after Ginzrot.

2. Stimulus cuspidatus rallo. A goad with a spud (rallum) affixed to one end, which was employed by the ploughman in cleansing the ploughshare, as the point was for driving his oxen. Plin. H. N. xviii. 49. § 2. The example (Stimulus/2.1) is from an Etruscan bronze.

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