Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Temo

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. 

TE'MO (ῥυμός). The pole of a carriage, cart, or any sort of vehicle. (Virg. Ov. Juv. &c.) The pole was permanently fixed to the axle, in the manner exhibited by the example (Temo/1.1) from an ancient bronze car (currus) now preserved in the Vatican; and a curricle bar or yoke (jugum) was bound on to its extremity by a thong (cohum), or by a bolt shot through it, which is seen in its place in the present illustration. When the horses were taken out, and the carriage put up, the yoke was removed, and the vehicle tilted on to its beam end, so that the pole would stand upright in the air, as described in the following passage, erecto currum temone supinant. Stat. Theb. iii. 414.

2. (ἱστοβοεύς). The beam or pole of a plough (Virg. Georg. 1. 171.), which was fastened on to the bent end, or plough tail (buris), passed between the oxen, and bore the yoke by which they were attached at its extremity, as will be understood by the annexed example (Temo/2.1), representing an Etruscan plough. Compare the wood-cut s. ARATRUM, 2. AA, which exhibits the same object upon a machine of more improved construction.

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  Temo/1.1
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