Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Stable, Statēra

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Statēra

A steelyard, an instrument of later invention than the balance (libra). Its parts were the yard (scapus), divided into fractional parts by points (puncta), and suspended by a hook or chain (ansa). The sliding weight was called aequipondium. See Vitruv. x. 3, 4; and Lancula; Libra.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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