• SADDLE

1. s. sella (in later writers): ephippium, Greek; stragulum, Latin (a housing, caparison, which the ancients used instead of our saddle): stratum (e.g., qui asinum non potest stratum caedit, proverbially, Petronius, also Liv., 7, 14, 7): clitellae (pack-saddle). To take off a saddle, *equo detrahere sellam or stragulum. Some horses are more fit for the saddle, others for draught, quidam equi melius equitem patiuntur, quidam jugum. To throw out of the saddle, aliquem de equo dejicere, deturbare (PROP.); aliquem dejicere, depellere de gradu; aliquem loco movere (figuratively). Firm in the saddle, qui haeret equo; qui non facile dejicitur de equo (PROP.), paratus; firmus; tutus; qui de gradu dejici non potest (figuratively).

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• v. (equum) sternere, or insternere (Liv.); imponere equo sellam: saddled, stratus: equus instratus frenatusque (Liv., 21, 17; saddled and bridled).
• Figuratively, To saddle with, imponere, injungere alicui aliquid.