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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ploxemum

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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. 

PLOX'EMUM, PLOX'EMUS, PLOX'IMUS or PLOX'ENUS. The body part of a two-wheeled carriage or gig (cisium), which was made or covered with leather. (Catull. 97. 6. Festus s. v.) According to Quintilian (i. 5. 8.), the term was a provincial one, which Catullus learnt amongst the districts bordering on the river Po; an opinion in some measure corroborated by the annexed engraving (Ploxemum/1.1), from an ancient sepulchral marble now preserved in the Museum at Verona, which closey resembles a very peculiar description of one-horse carriage, still commonly used in the same parts of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, where it goes by the name of a "Padovanino."

  • Ploxemum/1.1
    Ploxemum/1.1

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