. 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. 408 MANICATUS. MANIPULUS. 4. (xet/ots). A glove or mitten forthe hand only; made of leather orfur (Pallad. i. 43. 4.), and worn bythe Persians and some northern na-tions more generally than either byGreeks or Romans, amongst whomthe use of such a protection was con-fined to huntsmen and agriculturallabourers
. 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. 408 MANICATUS. MANIPULUS. 4. (xet/ots). A glove or mitten forthe hand only; made of leather orfur (Pallad. i. 43. 4.), and worn bythe Persians and some northern na-tions more generally than either byGreeks or Romans, amongst whomthe use of such a protection was con-fined to huntsmen and agriculturallabourers (Horn. Od. xxiv. 230.) orto delicate persons (Cic. Phil. ), whose hands suffered from thecold (Plin. Ep. iii. 5. 15.). Xeno-phon makes a clear distinction be-tween the two words x€lPLS an<^ ^clk-rv\r)9pa (Cyr. viii. 8, 17.), whichanswer to the Latin manica and digi-tate ; though both are applied to ob-jects which enveloped the hand ;whence it may be inferred that themanica was made without finger-stalls, like the gloves of our hedgers,and the other with fingers like theexample *. Digitale. 5. A manacle, as contradistin-guished from cornpes, a fetter. ( JEn. ii. 146. Hor. Ep. i. 16. 76.)The illustration is from a Romanbas-relief. 7. A grappling-iron, used in navalwarfare (Lucan. iii. 565.), and, asthe name implies, formed in imitationof the fingers in the human in general character to themanus ferrea and Harp ago, where anillustration is given. MANICATUS. Furnished withlong sleeves; applied to tunics.(Cic. Cat. ii. 10.) See Manica, 1. 2. Columell. i. 8. 9. xi. 1. JVXanica 4. MANICULA or MANIBULA. I A cross bar on the top of the stiva,or handle of a plough, which the
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