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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. 

POSTILE'NA (ὑπουρίς). A crupper, or breeching for riding and pack horses; made of leather, or of wood bent into a semi-circular form (Plaut. Cas. i. 1. 36.), so as to embrace the hind quarters of the animal, round which it passed from the back part of the saddle pad, which it thus prevented from sliding forwards, as the antilena or breast strap did from shifting backwards. The illustration (Postilena/1.1) is copied from the arch of Septimius Severus.

  • Postilena/1.1
    Postilena/1.1

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