Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sufflamen

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. 

SUFFLA'MEN (ἐποχεύς, τροχοπέδη). A break or drag-chain for locking the wheel of a carriage or a cart, to prevent it from running upon the horses in steep declivities. (Juv. viii. 148. Prud. Psych. 417.) It is seen underneath the carriage part of the annexed cart (Sufflamen/1.1), just in advance of the hind-wheel, though not very distinctly, in consequence of the minute scale of the drawing; but in the original monument, which is a sepulchral bas-relief, found at Langres in France, two chains are distinctly seen, one with a ring, the other with a hook at the end, to lock round the felloe between two of the spokes, and thus stop the revolution, or, as it were, make a fetter for the wheel, which is the literal meaning of the latter Greek word bracketed above.

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  Sufflamen/1.1