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

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Habēna

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（ἡνίαι). Mostly in the plural. Reins for driving; hence ἡνίοχος, a charioteer or driver.

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（ῥυταγωγεύς). A halter-rope (Ammian. xix. 8, 7).

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The sheets of a sail—i. e. the ropes by which the lower ends of the sail are braced or slacked (Val. Flacc. iv. 679).

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The word is also used in general of any strap or thong, as the strap of a spear (see Amentum), the thong of a sandal (Gell. xiii.21.2), of a helmet (Val. Flacc. vi. 365), the thong of a whip (Ovid, Her. ix. 81), and in medicine, a bandage (Suet. Aug. 80).

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

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