Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trutina

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. 

TRUT'INA (τρυτάνη). A general term for any kind of balance used for weighing; sometimes indicating the steel-yard (Vitruv. x. 3, 4. STATERA); at others, a pair of scales (Juv. vi. 437. LIBRA.