Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Examen

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EXA'MEN. The tongue on the beam of a balance, rising perpendicularly from the beam, and moving in an eye affixed to the same, by which it serves to point out the equality or inequality of weight between the objects in the scale. (Virg. Aen. xii. 725. Pers. Sat. i. 6.) The illustration (Examen/1.1) represents a scale beam furnished with such a tongue and eye, from an original of bronze preserved amongst the Roman antiquities in the British Museum.

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  Examen/1.1