statera
statera, a steelyard, balance
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staterae Noun: feminine genitive singular, Noun: feminine vocative plural, Noun: feminine dative singular, Noun: feminine nominative plural of statera
- I Lit., Vitr. 10, 8; Petr. 35, 4; Suet. Vesp. 25; Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38; Stat. S. 4, 9, 46: auraria, a goldsmith's scales, Varr. ap. Non. 455, 20; called also aurificis, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159.—
- B Transf., of any thing of a similar shape. *
- 1 The pole-bar of a chariot, Stat. S. 4, 3, 35.—*
- 2 A kind of platter, so called from its resemblance to the scale of a steelyard or balance, Nep. ap. Plin. 33, 11, 52, § 146.— *
- II Trop., the value of a thing, Plin. 12, 26, 57, § 127.
~er didragme idest medietas uncie appendens aureos iiij
~er, pondus argenti
litem de statĕre dissolvit lingua statēre
stattera ponderis ordinata pro auro
hoc pondus, hec ~era, hoc ~erisa wehgt
xxx ~era kasei
proiciamus quartam partem ~eris de frumento et quartam partem bovis in hostium cuneos
multos ~eres queque vilia valebant
appendit vij ~eres et x argenteos
hec est revera dandorum vera statera
~erem, genus nummi
[Petrus ] ut ad mare iret et hamum mitteret et piscem quem prius inveniret sumeret et ~erem ex eo acciperet
pro antiquo ~ere piscantis Petri coram multis testibus redditur clavicula famulo Christi, qua se sciret solvendum gratia ipsius celestis clavigeri
ille qui incredulus fuit quod uno ~ere modius simile aut ordei modii duo venderentur in crastino in porta Samarie
modius simile pro ~ere uno venundatus, sicut predixerat vir Dei Heliseus
aequum pondus habe, teneas et statera justa / non tibi sit modius duplex nec statera dupla
momentana, vel statam,sytlewæga
pondera predicta in utraque parte appense ~ere ab apostolo et a demone deposita ponderabant singularum animarum opera secundum earum merita
averium ‥ quod venditur per centenarium, ut cera, alumen et hujusmodi [solebat ] ponderari per ~eram domini regis
ante ponderacionem ~era in presencia emptoris et venditoris vacua videatur et quod brachia sint equalia
hic bilanx, -cis, hoc stateris,belans
Brittannia insula ‥ divina ‥ ~era terrae totius ponderatrice librata
aequali discretionis statera
beata cujus brachiis / pretium pependit saecli / statera [AS: ] facta corporis / praedamque tulit tartaroƿæge
de illis ‥ quae salubri sapientique consilio monetis in ~era mentis sollertius appendenda et cum eruditis in sacris codicibus conferenda
actus vestros freno moderamini discretionis, et ~era rectitudinis, ne scelerum enormitate vestrorum Deum et homines in vos irritetis
at quecumque anima sponsa tua est, in ~era judicii de pondere doloris sui pondus pensabit amoris
lege divina qua dicitur stetera dolosa abhominacio est apud Deum
septem sunt que te docebo. primum est, stateram ne transilias
a bekyn or a standard , statela
- , στατήρ, a steelyard, balance: aurificis, a goldsmith's scales.
STATE´RAa steelyard. This seems to have been an invention of Italy: according to Isidore (Orig. 16.24), it was first used in Campania, and was called trutina campana; and it may be remarked that in Roman remains generally the steelyard is the commonest form of weighing machine discovered. There can be no doubt that the balance [LIBRA] was a far older contrivance than the steelyard: Blümner (in Baumeister's Denkmäler, p. 2078) conjectures as the primitive form a simple bar of wood placed through a ring or loop with the articles to be weighed against each other hung at the two ends. The more elaborate balance was a natural improvement on this, but the steelyard clearly involved more ingenuity and calculation.
An account of the steelyard will be found in Vitruvius (Vitr. 10.3, 4. The parts defined are the beam or yard (scapus) suspended by a hook or chain which is called the handle (ansa); in this is the point of revolution (centrum), and near it is the caput, from which depends the scale (lancula): on the other side of the centrum the scapus is marked with points (puncta), which express the weight of objects in the scale as the aequipondium, or hanging weight, moves along the beam. This aequipondium was generally adorned with a head divine, human or animal.
The example here given is from the Museum of the Capitol at Rome. Others differ in having less ornament; and it is common also to find a hook attached to the shorter arm between the centrum and the caput, which was intended to hold articles whose size and shape made it convenient to hang them on, instead of putting them in the scale, and, as this altered the leverage, there was a double set of puncta on the beam to suit either arrangement. A third kind is shown in Baumeister (Denkm. fig. 2316), where a weight hangs on one arm of an ordinary balance, this arm being marked with puncta. It is clear that this was intended for use either as libra or statera: in the former case the weight would be detached; in the latter one scale would be detached (or allowance made for it in the puncta), and the other would be used as in the steelyard.
It must be observed that, though statera is strictly the steelyard, it is often used for a weighing machine of any kind: e. g. in Suet. Vesp. 25, the statera of the dream is clearly a balance with two scales; so also the aurificis statera is doubtless a balance of a peculiarly delicate kind contrasted with the popularis trutina, or less carefully adjusted balance; for trutina is used for any weighing machine, without distinction of form. (An illustration of this goldsmith's balance from an ancient relief is shown in Blümner, Technologie, 4.312.)
The engraving in this article shows various weights (aequipondia, σηκώματα), such as may be seen in many museums, and of which a large collection may be studied in the British Museum. There was at Rome a special guild of Sacomarii, or makers of weights (C. I. L. 10.1930; Marquardt, Privatl. 713). For a marble altar set up by a guild of Sacomarii at Ostia, see Lanciani, Ancient Rome, p. 34, London, 1889.
[G.E.M]A steelyard, an instrument of later invention than the balance (libra). Its parts were the yard (scapus), divided into fractional parts by points (puncta), and suspended by a hook or chain (ansa). The sliding weight was called aequipondium. See Vitruv. x. 3, 4; and lancula; libra.