Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Stiva

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'VA (ἐχέτλη). The plough-staff, or handle of a plough; consisting, in its simplest form, of a single upright branch (Varro, L. L. v. 135.), forming part of the same piece as the plough tail (buris), which the ploughman held in his left hand to guide the machine, or pressed down to make the share penetrate the ground, in the manner shown by the annexed example (Stiva/1.1), from a Roman bas-relief; which also graphically illustrates such expressions as stivae paene rectus innititur (Columell. i. 9. 3.); stivae innixus (Ov. Met. viii. 218.); stivam premens (Id. Fast. iv. 826.). Other plough-staffs, upon a more improved plan, are exhibited under the words ARATRUM and BURA.

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