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

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Dossuarius

or Dorsuarius. A name given to any animal carrying burdens on its back (Varr. R. R. ii. 6 and 10). It carried its load either by means of panniers (clitellae) or the pack-saddles (sagmae),

Dossuarii. (Column of Theodosius.)

whence we read of equus sagmarius. Hence came the German Saum-pferd and the English sumpterhorse.

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

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