Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), I, Ithăcus, Iugum

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Iugum

（ζυγόν and ζυγός).

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In architecture, a cross-beam (Vitruv. x. 8, 19).

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The beam which

Ancient Yokes.

united the upright posts of a loom.

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The crossrail of a trellis.

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The cross-bar of a lyre.

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A scale-beam, and hence, by metonymy, a pair of scales=libra.

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The thwart or cross-bench of a boat.

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A yoke, often fastened to the horns of a beast (Columell. R. R. ii. 2). The yoke was tied to the pole (ῥυμός, temo) by a rope or strap (ζυγόδεσμον). Cf. Hom. Il. xxiv. 268-274, with Leaf's discussion in the Journal of the Hellen. Soc. v. 185 foll. See Currus.

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

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