PRELUM
PRELUM part of the oil and wine press [
TORCULAR]. The name is also
given to other presses, as (1) that used in making paper (
Plin. Nat. 13.77; cf.
LIBER): (2) the press for clothes used at the end of
the fuller's process [
FULLO],
when the clothes were sprinkled (Sen.
Q. N. 1.3, 2) and laid
in presses, whence they were taken out ready to send home (
Amm. Marc. 28.4, 19). The prela in
Mart. 2.46,
3;
11.8,
5; Claud.
Epithal. Pal. 101, are
similar presses in the houses for keeping the clothes smooth and ready for
wear. The Greek name was
ἶπος (Poll.
10.135; cf. 7.41); and a later synonym was
pressorium (Ammian.
l.c.;
Blümner,
Technologie, 1.173).
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