saddle (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ĕphippium (Gr. ἐφίππιον; the use of the saddle being learned from the Greeks)2. sella (late) • saddle (subs.): 1. ĕphippium (Gr. ἐφίππιον; the use of the saddle being learned from the Greeks): Cic. Fin. 3, 4, 15 (where it is referred to as a word current, but of questionable authority): esp. pl.: to ride with a s., ephippiis uti, Caes. B. G. 4, 2: Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 43 (optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus): a s.-horse, (equus) ad ephippium., Varr. R. R. 2, 7, fin. (See Dict. Ant. p. 464.) 2. sella (late): horses for war, the race-course, the s., proeliis, circo, sellis [utiles equi], Veg. Vet. 4, 6, init.: and a little further on, ad usum sellae Persis meliores equos praestat. (Stragulum = horse-cloth, whereas ephippium denotes a proper saddle.) Phr.: some horses are better fitted for the s., others for draught, equi alii melius equitem patiuntur alii jugum (R. and A.) and v. supr.: to be firm in the s., equo firmiter insidere, cf. Liv. 7, 6: in equo [bene] haerere, Cic. Deiot. 10, 28 (equo haerere, poet., Hor. Od. 3, 24, 55): a horse with s. and bridle on, equus stratus ac frenatus: v. foll. art.
saddle (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. sterno, strāvi, tum, 32. ĕphippium s. sellam [equo] impōnoII. Fig. • saddle (v.): I. Lit. 1. sterno, strāvi, tum, 3: to s. and bridle horses, equos sternere, infrenare, Liv. 37, 20, fin. Also perh. insterno, 3: id. 34, 7 (where however equus speciosius instratus indicates the entire caparisonment of a horse). 2. ĕphippium s. sellam [equo] impōno: cf. Phaedr. 1, 15, 8 (clitellas imp.): v. saddle, subs. Phr.: a horse ready s.d and bridled, equus instructus frenatusque, Liv. 21, 27, fin. (Gron. e conj., instratus: cf. supr.) II. Fig.: to saddle with; i. e. to impose a burden upon: nearest word, impōno, 3 (with acc. and dat.): he s.d his country with a heavy debt, *civitati in posterum grande aes alienum imposuit [civitatem grandi aere alieno oppressam reliquit]: v. to impose.
SADDLE Copy link • 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). 2. 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.