Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Stipes

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. 

STI'PES (στύπος). A round stake fixed in the ground (Festus s. v.); as a land mark (Ov. Fast. ii. 642.); as a stay for tethering other things to (Id. iv. 331. Suet. Nero, 29.), or for supporting them, as in the annexed example (Stipes/1.1) from the column of Trajan, which represents the manner in which the soldiery piled their helmets and shields when engaged upon field works, making fortifications, &c.

2. A stake set up for practising recruits at their exercises (Mart. vii. 32.); same as PALUS.

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