. 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. furnished with such a tongue andeye, from an original of bronze pre-served amongst the Roman antiqui-ties in the British Museum. EXASCIATUS. Hewn out ofthe rough, and into shape, with acarpenters adze (ascia) ; and, as thiswas the first operation before finish-ing and polishing with other andfiner tools, the
. 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. furnished with such a tongue andeye, from an original of bronze pre-served amongst the Roman antiqui-ties in the British Museum. EXASCIATUS. Hewn out ofthe rough, and into shape, with acarpenters adze (ascia) ; and, as thiswas the first operation before finish-ing and polishing with other andfiner tools, the expression opus exas-ciatum implies a work already some-what advanced ; i.,e. in which all thepreliminaries have been successfullygot through. Plaut. As. ii. 2. 93. EXCALCEATUS. Literally,without shoes (calcei, Suet. ); thence, in a special sense, acomic actor (Seneca, Bp. 8.), as con-. tradistinguished from a tragic one(cothurnatus), who wore upon thestage a close boot, which envelopedthe whole foot ; whereas the chaus-sure of the comedian was not a closeshoe or regular calceus, but a meresole bound on with leather straps,which left the toes and great part ofthe foot exposed, as shown by theannexed figure, from a bas-relief re-presenting a comic scene. EXCUBITORES. EXOMIS. 269 EXCUBITORES. Sentries andwatchmen, including those who per-formed military as well as civilduties (Caes. B. G. vii. 69. 12.), and who kept watch bynight or day (excubice) ; in whichrespect they are distinguished fromVigiles, a name given only to nightwatches. 2. Under the Empire, the sameterm was specially applied to abody of soldiers belonging to theimperial cohort to whom the duty ofguarding the emperors palace wasentrusted. Suet. Nero, 8. CompareOtho, 6. EXCUBITORIUM. The postwhere a corps de garde is stationed;of these there were fourteen in Romeitself, one for each of the re
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