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

Note 1359 — STIRRUPS.

William Johnston translation

Lib. v. 1296, “Et prius est repertum in equi conscendere costas.” Martius reads clostris; and thinks that clostra is the Greek name for a ladder, which however is κροσσά.

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