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

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Antlia

（ἄντλια). Any contrivance for raising water. Five such machines are mentioned by Vitruvius, x. ch. 4-7; and Lucretius (v. 516) speaks of one like this, in the annexed illustration, which represents a machine still used in the Tyrol. The

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antlia with which Martial watered his garden (ix. 19) was nothing more than the pole and bucket still used in Greece, Italy, Egypt, and in some parts of New England.

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

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