Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Medipontus

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. 

MEDIPON'TUS. Enumerated by Cato amongst the necessaries of a wine-press, but without any further explanatory details; excepting that it is mentioned as one of the ropes, and apparently of the strongest and thickest description. Cato, R. R. iii. 3. and 12.