pole, long staff; measuring rod; perch
Latin word, found 11 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Fasti 3.117: pertica suspensos portabat longa maniplos,
Plautus, Asinaria 3.2.589: nimis véllem habere perticam.
Cato the Elder, De agricultura 1·25: … os pedes tres, altos pedes quattuor, infimum latum P. I et palmum. eos lapide consternito: si lapis non erit, perticis saligneis viridibus controversus conlatis consternito: si pertica non erit, sarmentis conligatis. postea scro …
All forms of pertica