Cesticillus
Cesticillus a porter's knot, pad for carrying burdens, is known to us only through the gloss in Festus (s. v.). The Greek word is τύλη (Aristot. ap. D. L. 9.53, where it is said to have been invented by Protagoras), or στεῖρα, from its being twisted into a circular shape (Apollod. 2.5, 11 § 14). For an illustration, see ARCULUM
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.