. 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. of which was keptopen by branches of trees, and sodeceived the animal who was driveninto it, when it was immediatelyclosed by a running rope (epidromus)round the. neck. Yates, p. 422. CASTELLARIUS. An officerwho had the charge of superintendingthe public reservoir (castellum) of anaqueduct. Fro
. 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. of which was keptopen by branches of trees, and sodeceived the animal who was driveninto it, when it was immediatelyclosed by a running rope (epidromus)round the. neck. Yates, p. 422. CASTELLARIUS. An officerwho had the charge of superintendingthe public reservoir (castellum) of anaqueduct. Frontin. Aq. 117. Grut. 601. 7. CASTELLUM. Diminutive ofCastrum. A small fortified placeor fortress in which a body of soldierswas stationed, either in the opencountry to protect the agriculturalpopulation from the incursions ofhostile tribes, or on the frontiers, toguard the boundaries of the state, orin any other position which com-manded the main road and lines ofintercommunication. (Sisenn. s. Festinatim. p. 514. Cic. Fam. 126 CASTELLUM. CASTERIA. xi. 4. Id. Phil. v. 4.) The illus-tration represents one of these flor- as seen in the illustration here in-serted, which is a restoration of thecastellum belonging to the Julianaqueduct, still remaining, though in. tified posts with its garrison, from theVatican Virgil. 2. A small fortified town; so calledbecause many of the forts, originallyintended as mere military posts, grewinto towns and villages from theneighbouring population flocking tothem, and building their cottagesabout the fort, for the sake of pro-tection ; just as the baronial castles ofthe feudal ages formed a nucleus formany of the towns in modern v. 3. 3. The reservoir of an aqueduct;formed at its city termination, or atany part of the line, where a headof water was required for the supplyof the locality; and into which themain pipes were inserted for the pur-pose of distributing the water throughthe various districts of a city.(Vi
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