Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pentaspastos

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. 

PENTASPAS'TOS (πεντάσπαστον). A pulley case, containing a set of five pullies (orbiculi) for raising weights, like the example s. ORBICULUS, only more powerful from its increased action. Vitruv. x. 2. 3.