. 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. | Liv. ap. Isidor. Orig. xix. 4. 9.)The contrivance is explained by theannexed wood-cut, which exhibits I the manner of fastening the oars inthe Mediterranean galleys of the16th century. 2. The thong of a palanquin (lec-tica), (Gracchus, ap. Gell. x. 3. 2.);by which the conveyance was at-tached to its carryin
. 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. | Liv. ap. Isidor. Orig. xix. 4. 9.)The contrivance is explained by theannexed wood-cut, which exhibits I the manner of fastening the oars inthe Mediterranean galleys of the16th century. 2. The thong of a palanquin (lec-tica), (Gracchus, ap. Gell. x. 3. 2.);by which the conveyance was at-tached to its carrying-pole (asser), asan oar is to its thowl. It was fas-tened down (deligatus) to the shafts I (atiiites), like the back-band of a. cart, and the carrying-pole passed| through it; which raised and sup-| ported the carriage by resting on theshoulders of the bearers, in the man-ner represented by the annexed en-graving, which exhibits the mode oftransporting a palanquin in the illustration is not froma genuine Greek or Roman model,I little doubt will be felt that the eon-4 L , 626 STYLOBATA. SUBJUGIUM.
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