A dictionary of Greek and Roman . INCOLA. [Domicilium.] INCORPORALES RES. [Dominium.] INCUNABULA or CUNABULA (<nrdpya-vov), swaddling-clothes. The first thing done after the birth of a childwas to wash it ; the second to wrap it in swad-dling clothes, and the rank of the child was indi-cated by the splendour and costliness of this, itsfirst attire. Sometimes a fine white shawl, tiedwith a gold band, was used for the purpose (, in A poll. 121, 122) ; at other times a smallpurple scarf, fastened with a brooch. (Pind. 114 ; x^-alx^l0Vi Longus, i. 1. p. 14, 28, e
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . INCOLA. [Domicilium.] INCORPORALES RES. [Dominium.] INCUNABULA or CUNABULA (<nrdpya-vov), swaddling-clothes. The first thing done after the birth of a childwas to wash it ; the second to wrap it in swad-dling clothes, and the rank of the child was indi-cated by the splendour and costliness of this, itsfirst attire. Sometimes a fine white shawl, tiedwith a gold band, was used for the purpose (, in A poll. 121, 122) ; at other times a smallpurple scarf, fastened with a brooch. (Pind. 114 ; x^-alx^l0Vi Longus, i. 1. p. 14, 28, ) The poor used broad fillets of common cloth(panni, Luke, ii. 7, 12 ; Ezek. xvi. 4. Vulg. ; com-pare Horn. Hymn, in Merc. 151, 306; iii. 10. § 2 ; Aelian, V. H. ii. 7 ; Eurip. Ion,32 ; Dion Chrysost. vi. p. 203, ed. Reiske ; Amphit. v. 1. 52, True. v. 13). The precedingwoodcut, taken from a beautiful bas-relief at Rome,which is supposed to refer to the birth of Telephus,shows the appearance of a child so clothed, andrenders in some degree more intelligible the fableof the deception practised by Rhea upon Saturn insaving the life of Jupiter by presenting a stone,enveloped in swaddling-clothes, to be devoured bySaturn instead of his new-born child. (Hes. ) It was one of the peculiarities of the Lace-daemonian education to dispense with the use ofincunabula, and to allow children to enjoy the freeuse of their limbs. (Plut. Lycurg. p. 90, ) [J. Y.] INCUS (), an anvil. The representa-tions of Vulcan and the Cyclopes on various worksof art, show that the ancient anvil was formed likethat of modern times. When the smith Avanted tomake use of it, he placed it on a large block ofwood (a/CjU^eTov, Horn. II. xviii. 410, 476, 274 ; positis incudibus, Virg. Aen. vii. 629 ;viii. 451) ;
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