. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ticular member which has a broadflat face situated between the cymarecta above, and the cymatium, or bedmoulding, below, from which it hasa bold projection. (Vitruv. iv. 3. 6.)The Roman architects, unlike ours,do not appear to have appropriatedany distinct word to express collec-tively all the members of whic
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ticular member which has a broadflat face situated between the cymarecta above, and the cymatium, or bedmoulding, below, from which it hasa bold projection. (Vitruv. iv. 3. 6.)The Roman architects, unlike ours,do not appear to have appropriatedany distinct word to express collec-tively all the members of which acornice is composed; consequently,they did not regard the cornice asan entire portion of an entablature,but as several distinct members,which are always enumerated sepa-rately : viz. the sima; cymatium in 208 CORONARIA. CORTINA. summo; corona; cymatium in , however, uses • the GreekKopoouis in a collective sense, as equi-valent to our cornice. CORONARIA. A female whomakes garlands and chaplets. xxi. 3. See next illustration. CORONARIUS (<TT€Cj)aV7)Tr\6KOS, (rrecpauoirdoXrjs). One who makes andsells garlands, wreaths, chaplets, orcrowns, of real or artificial (Front, ad M. Cses. Bp. i. 6. xxxiv. 26.) The illustrationis from a Pompeian painting, andrepresents male and female genii en-gaged in this operation. 2. Aurum coronarium. A sum ofgold sent by the provinces to a com-mander, for making a golden tri-umphal crown. (Cic Pis. 37.) SeeCorona, 1. (3.). 3. Opus coronarium. Stucco-workemployed in the decoration of cor-nices. Vitruv. vii. 6. Corona, 15. CORONA/rrUS (arecpcivriQdpos).Wearing a wreath, chaplet, or the illustrations to Corona. 2. Also, decorated with garlandsor festoons ; applied to things, asto ships (Ov. Fast. iv. 335.); toaltars (Prop. iii. 10. 19.) ; to cattle(Prop. iii. 1. 10. Jd. iv. 1. 21.). CORRIGIA OVas, a(panpwrrj p).A shoe-string and boot-lace (Cic. Div.
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