Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tolleno

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. 

TOLLE'NO (κήλων, -ώνειον). A swipe; a very simple machine for raising water from a well, still commonly used in many parts of Europe. It consists of a long pole, with a bucket and rope at one of its ends, and a weight at the other, poised at the centre of gravity across a strong upright; or, when of very great length, as in the annexed example (Tolleno/1.1), working on a permanent structure made for the purpose. (Festus, s. v. Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. RECIPROCARE. Plin. H. N. xix. 20.) The illustration is from a Pompeian painting, which represents an Egyptian landscape. It shows the well, with the bucket (situla) suspended over it; the beam is worked by two men, and has precisely the bent form described by Martial, ix. 19. antlia curva.

2. A machine of similar construction, used in military and naval operations for raising up a body of men to a level with the enemy's ramparts, &c. Liv. xxiv. 34. xxxviii. 5. Veg. Mil. iv. 21.

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