Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), N, Nerium Celtĭcum, Nervus

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（ξύλον, ποδοκάκκη, χοῖνιξ). A sort of stocks or pillory for the confinement of criminals and the punishment of refractory slaves. Festus speaks of it as confining both the neck and the feet; but its form is uncertain. All that is known is that it had a framework of wood, with holes for hands, neck, and feet. See Plaut. Poen. v. 4, 99; Gell. xx. 1; and Aristoph. Eq. 1047.

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（νεῦρον). The string of a musical instrument.

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A bowstring.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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