Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lupatum
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.
LUPA'TUM (στόμιον πριονωτόν). (Pollux. x. 56.) A very severe kind of snaffle-bit surrounded with pricks or jags (ἐχῖνοι, τρίϐολοι. Pollux, i. 148.), like the teeth of a wolf, from which it took the name (Serv. ad Virg. Georg. iii. 208.); and, in consequence, usually characterised by the epithet durum. Virg. l. c. Ov. A. Am. i. 2. 15. Hor. Od. i. 8. 6. Stat. Theb. iv. 730.