Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Struppus

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. 

STRUPPUS (τροπός, τροπωτήρ). A twisted thong of leather, or cord, by which the oar is fastened to its thowl (scalmus). (Vitruv. x. 3. 6. Liv. ap. Isidor. Orig. xix. 4. 9.) The contrivance is explained by the annexed wood-cut (Struppus/1.1), which exhibits the manner of fastening the oars in the Mediterranean galleys of the 16h century.

2. The thong of a palanquin (lectica), (Gracchus, ap. Gell. x. 3. 2.); by which the conveyance was attached to its carrying-pole (asser), as an oar is to its thowl. it was fastened down (deligatus) to the shafts (amites), like the back-band of a cart, and the carrying-pole passed through it; which raised and supported the carriage by resting on the shoulders of the bearers, in the manner represented by the annexed engraving (Struppus/2.1), which exhibits the mode of transporting a palanquin in China. Although the illustration is not from a genuine Greek or Roman model, little doubt will be felt that the contrivance employed by those nations was the same, if reference be made to the wood-cut s. PHALANGARII, which exhibits the same object applied in a very similar manner to the transport of a butt of wine.

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