. 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. iration. Cic. iii. 1. 1. See Sudatio, Suda-torium. 2. Assa tibia. A solo on the pipe,without any vocal ad Virg. G. ii. 417. 3. Assa nutrix. A dry Vet. ad Juv. Sat. xiv. 208. 4. Assi lapides. Stones laid with-out mortar (Serv. ad Virg,. G. ), in which way the fines
. 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. iration. Cic. iii. 1. 1. See Sudatio, Suda-torium. 2. Assa tibia. A solo on the pipe,without any vocal ad Virg. G. ii. 417. 3. Assa nutrix. A dry Vet. ad Juv. Sat. xiv. 208. 4. Assi lapides. Stones laid with-out mortar (Serv. ad Virg,. G. ), in which way the finest of theGreek and Roman buildings wereconstructed. ASTR AG ALIZONTES (turrpaya-Al&vtes). A Greek name used todesignate persons engagedin playing with the knuckle-bones of animals (aarpa- $yd\oi, Latin Tali), one ofwhich is here shown from an originalof bronze, a very favourite subjectwith the sculptors and painters ofGreece. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19.§ 2. Pausan. x. 30. 1.) Both sexesamused themselves in this way, and 1employed the knuckle-bones for |many different games ; but the sim-plest and commonest, which appearsto be represented in the annexedengraving, from a Greek paintingdiscovered at Resina, resembled what our school-boys call dibs, andconsisted merely in throwing the. bones up into the air, and catchingthem again on the back of the handas they fall down. In many others,which were purely gambling games,the bones were marked with numbers,and used as dice. Jul. Poll. 104. Eust. Od. i. p. 1397. 34. Talus. ASTRA GALUS (aarpdyaXos).The Greek name for one of the ver-tebral bones, the ball of the ankle-jointand the knuckle-bone of animals,which was used instead of dice forgames of chance and skill, but is notemployed in any of these senses bythe Latin writers. 2. By the Roman architects, anastragal; a small moulding of semi-circular profile, so termed by theancients from a certain resemblancewhich it bears, in its alternation ofround and angular forms, to a row
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