Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sucula

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. 

SUC'ULA. A capstan; for drawing weights, constructed upon the same principle as the modern ones. Vitruv. x. 2. 2. Cato, R. R. xii. and xix.