. 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. rest against, whilst his legs and feetwere stretched out to its opposite ex-tremity, as plainly shown by theannexed illustration, from a Romanbas-relief. Suet. Cat. 26. 5. A dwarf wall closing up thelower portions of an intercolumniation(Vitruv. iv. 4. 1.), or placed as aparapet upon the upper stories of aned
. 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. rest against, whilst his legs and feetwere stretched out to its opposite ex-tremity, as plainly shown by theannexed illustration, from a Romanbas-relief. Suet. Cat. 26. 5. A dwarf wall closing up thelower portions of an intercolumniation(Vitruv. iv. 4. 1.), or placed as aparapet upon the upper stories of anedifice (Vitruv. v. 1. 5.), to preclude PNIGEUS. PODIUM. 513 the danger of falling over, as seen inthe annexed engraving from the. Vatican Virgil, representing Didowatching the departure of iEneasfrom the upper story of her palace. 6. A shelf, affixed to the walls of aroom, upon which articles of commonuse were deposited for convenience,or objects ofluxury display-ed for orna-ment (Juv. ii. 7. Pers. i. 106. 29. 1. 17.). The example, froma painting of Herculaneum, representsa shelf fastened to the wall in a shoe-makers shop, upon which a numberof lasts are deposited. 7. A board upon which a corpse islaid Mart. viii. 44. 13. PNIGEUS (wiyevs). A dampermade in the shape of an invertedfunnel, and intended to stop or sup-press the rising air in a water x. 8. 2. POCILLATOR (olvoXoos). Ayoung slave who filled the wine cups(pocilla), and handed them to theguests. Apul. Met x. p. 223. Sameas Pincerna ; which see. POCFLLUM. Diminutive of Po-CULUM. Liv. x. 42. Suet. Vesp. 2. POCULUM (TTOTTjp, TTOTTipiOv). A general term for any description ofvessel employed as a drinking-cup,and thus including al
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