Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Sardes, Sarrācum

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A wagon or cart used in ancient Italy, and resembling the plaustrum (q. v.). It

Supposed form of Sarracum. (Herculanean painting.)

was used for heavy carting, especially by farmers (Cic. ap. Quint.viii. 3.21).

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

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)