Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Satyrus, Scapus

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The shaft of a column; that which supports the capital, and rests upon the base (Vitruv. iii. 5).

The shaft of a pillar which supports one end of a stair in a staircase.

（καυλός). The shaft or stem of a lamp-stand (candelabrum).

The “yarn-beam” of a weaver's loom (Lucret. v. 1352).

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

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