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

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（κλῖμαξ).

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A ladder or any contrivance for making an ascent. The usual form of ancient ladder was identical with our own, as shown in the annexed illustration.

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A ship's ladder, let down the side of a vessel, as shown below.

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The staircase in a house, usually constructed like our own (Livy, xxxix. 14). Sometimes they were enclosed by side-walls, so that the person using the stair was concealed. These were called “Greek stairs” (scalae Graecae, Vitruv. ix.

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Praef.

(Roman fresco painting.)

7), and were often used as hidingplaces (Cic. Mil. 15; Epist. iii. 15).

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In very late Latin, the word is used of stirrups.

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

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