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

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Petaurum

（πέταυρον).

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A perch or roost for fowls (Pollux, x. 156).

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A spring-board for acrobats (Juv.xiv. 265), who were called petauristae. From the petaurum the acrobats sometimes leaped through blazing hoops (Petron. 53, with Friedländer's note).

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

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