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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pressorium

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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. 

PRESSO'RIUM. A clothes-press (Ammian. xxviii. 4. 19. solutis pressoriis vestes diligenter explorat. Compare Senec. Tranquill. 1.) The example (Pressorium/1.1), from a painting in the fullers' establishment at Pompeii, exhibits a machine precisely the same as those now employed for similar purposes, worked by a screw (cochlea) acting upon a press-beam (prelum), which flattens down the folds of cloth laid under it, and against the board on which they are placed.

  • Pressorium/1.1
    Pressorium/1.1

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