. 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. zuoli. In the bireme or vessel withtwo ordines, it is equally clear, fromother words in the same passage ofTacitus, and the following illustra-tion, from a marble bas-relief, that. the second bank was placed under ORDO. QREM, 457 the first, and counted in rank fromthe bulwarks to the waters edge, thelower oar
. 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. zuoli. In the bireme or vessel withtwo ordines, it is equally clear, fromother words in the same passage ofTacitus, and the following illustra-tion, from a marble bas-relief, that. the second bank was placed under ORDO. QREM, 457 the first, and counted in rank fromthe bulwarks to the waters edge, thelower oar ports, and, consequently,the rowers seats, being placed diago-nally under the first, in order to di-minish as much as possible the inter-val between one bank and the the same principle was observedin the disposition of a trireme orvessel with three ordines, and eachbank counted in a similar manner be-tween the water and the bulwarks, istestified by the expression of Virgil•—terno consurgunt ordine remi ( 120.), and the annexed illustration,from an ancient Roman fresco paint-
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