ĕpĭrēdĭum

ii, n.

ἐπί-reda; perh. derived immediately from the Greeks, who adopted the Gallic reda into their language

I. a thong by which a horse was attached to a cart, Juv. 8, 66; Quint. 1, 5, 68.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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