clitellae
clitellae, a pack-saddle, sumpter-saddle
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clitellis Noun: feminine ablative plural, Noun: feminine dative plural of clitellae
- a pack-saddle put upon beasts of burden, especially upon asses, a sumpter-saddle, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 91 (780); Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 5, 13, 40; Hor. S. 1, 5, 47; id. Ep. 1, 13, 8; Phaedr. 1, 15, 8.—Prov.: bovi clitellas imponere; v. bos, I.—
- II Meton.
- A The name of a place in Rome: clitellae dicuntur etiam locus Romae propter similitudinem, et in Viā Flaminiā loca quaedam devexa subinde et accliva, Paul. ex Fest. p. 59, 15 Müll.—
- B An instrument of torture: est etiam tormenti genus eodem nomine appellatum, Paul. l. l.
- CLI-, a pack-saddle, sumpter-saddle: clitellis alqd apportare: clitellas ponere, H.: mihi imponere, Ph.
CLITELLAE(κανθήλια), a pair of panniers, and therefore only used in the plural number. (Hor. Sat. 1.5, 47; Plaut. Most. 3.2, 91.) In Italy they were commonly used with mules or asses, but in other countries they were also applied to horses, of which an instance is given in the annexed woodcut from the Column of Trajan; and Plautus (ib. 94) figuratively describes a man upon whose shoulders a load of any kind, either moral or physical, is charged, as homo clitellarius.
Clitellae is also the name of an instrument of torture, and (propter similitudinem) of a place in Rome, and of some depressions in the Via Flaminia (Festus, s. v.). Κανθήλια is also used for a large basket in which grapes were carried at vintages (Artem. 4.6; Geop. 6.11, Hesych.), and for the curved wooden framework sometimes erected in the stern of a man-of-war to carry an awning, which was used as a statecabin for the στρατηγὸς or trierarch (Hesych.; Pollux, 1.89).
[A.R] [J.H.F](κανθήλια). A pair of panniers, and therefore only used in the plural number. In Italy they were commonly used with mules or asses, but in other countries they were also applied to horses, of which an instance is given in the following illustration from the Column of Trajan; and Plautus figuratively describes a man upon whose shoulders a load of any kind, either moral or physical, is charged as homo clitellarius.
A particular spot in the city of Rome, and certain parts of the Via Flaminia, which, from their undulations in hill and valley, were thought to resemble the flowing line of a pair of panniers, were also termed Clitellae.