Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Oscillatio

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. 

OSCILLA'TIO (αίώρα). A swing, or game at swinging (Pet. Sat. 140. Hygin. Fab. 130. Festus s. Oscillum. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. ii. 389.); a favourite amusement with the ancients, and practised much in the same manner as now, excepting that the swing had four legs to stand upon the ground like a chair, and was suspended by four ropes instead of two, as indicated by the example (Oscillatio/1.1), which represents a Greek lady swinging, from a design upon a fictile vase. The entire composition, in the original, contains another figure standing on the ground behind the swing, with her arms extended, in the attitude of one who has just pushed the swing forward, and awaits its return, to repeat the operation.

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  Oscillatio/1.1