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Climax

（κλῖμαξ).

1.

A ladder or staircase. (See Domus; Scalae.)

2.

An instrument of torture. See Tormentum.

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

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