Amongst Romans [this is the term for] a two-pronged timber.
*fou=rka: para\ *(rwmai/ois di/dumon cu/lon.
cf.
delta 870.
The word
furca denotes in Latin both the fork-shaped wood to be placed on the neck of a punished culprit, generally a slave, and the gallows, corresponding to Greek
di/dumon xu/lon. This meaning is common in juridical sources: see
Digest 48.19.28, passim.
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