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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 1356 — STIRRUPS.

William Johnston translation

Lipsius understands in this sense what Livy says, book iv. chap. 19, of Cornelius Cossus, “Quem cum ictum equo dejecisset, confestim et ipse hasta innisus se in pedes excepit.”

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