Aratrum

Aratrum is the Latin word for plough, and "arotron" (αροτρον) is the Greek word. The Greeks appear to have had diverse kinds of plough from the earliest historical records. Hesiod advised the farmer to have always two ploughs, so that if one broke the other might be ready for use. These ploughs should be of two kinds, the one called "autoguos" (αυτογυος, "self-limbed"), in which the plough-tail was of the same piece of timber as the share-beam and the pole; and the other called "pekton" (πηκτον, "fixed"), because in it, three parts, which were of three kinds of timber, were adjusted to one another, and fastened together by nails.