Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Retinaculum

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. 

RETINA'CULUM (σχοινίον ἐπίγειον). In nautical language, a hawser, thrown out from the stern of a vessel (Ov. Met. xv. 696.), by which it was made fast to the shore (Ib. xiv. 547.), as contradistinguished from the cable (ancorale) at the bow.

2. A tow-rope, by which animals draw a vessel from the shore (Hor. Sat. i. 5. 18.), as contradistinct from remulcus, by which one vessel was towed behind another.

3. Long traces for wagons to which several pairs of oxen are attached, sometimes extending to the length of 26 feet. Cato, R. R. 63. and 135.

4. Any king of long rope or thong which serves to retain or restrain; as a tether, or a halter for cattle (Columell. vi. 2. 4. CAPISTRUM); the reins of a chariot. Virg. Georg. i. 513. HABENA.