Craticulum
κρατευταί
Craticulum (κρατευταί, Il. 9.214; κρατευτήριον, Poll. 6.89; κρατευτήρια, id. 10.97), andirons or dogs,
rests on each side of the fire on which a spit turns. On the derivation, see Leaf ad Il. l.c. Festus derives the Latin word from the Greek; a not very probable etymology (Fest. p. 53, M.).
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.