. 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. lime is chopped up for making mor- LACUSCULUS. LAMPAS. 365 tar (Vitruv. vii. 2. 2.); as shownby the annexed example, from agroup in the Column of Trajan,which represents one of the Ro-man soldiers making mortar for aparty of builders. 6. A trough or vessel of water,into which smiths and metal workersplunge th
. 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. lime is chopped up for making mor- LACUSCULUS. LAMPAS. 365 tar (Vitruv. vii. 2. 2.); as shownby the annexed example, from agroup in the Column of Trajan,which represents one of the Ro-man soldiers making mortar for aparty of builders. 6. A trough or vessel of water,into which smiths and metal workersplunge their instruments to cool them,or the heated iron to harden it, when. wrought. (Ovid. Met xii. 278.)In the annexed example, from a Ro-man bas-relief, it is represented as alarge round basin standing on theground at the foot of the anvil. 7. A bin, in a granary. 6. 14. 8. A coffer in a ceiling. ( Serv. ad JEn. i. 726.) Same asLacunar. LACUSCULUS. Diminutive ofLacus; and especially, a bin in a gra-nary ; or in a store house for olives, inwhich the fruit was deposited as it waspicked, and kept until it could be putinto the press. Columell. xii. 50. 5. LiENA (xAaTfa). A term usedto designate not so much any particu-lar description of robe, as a peculiarkind of woollen cloth, with a long loosenap(Strabo, iv. 4. 3.), which was em-ployed for various kinds of garmentsbelonging to the outward apparel(amictus), such as the pallium, sagum,ricinium, lacerna, &c. But the namewas also specially given to the amictusworn by the Flamines at the sacrifice;which in early times was made ofthis cloth, and put on double, like theGreek diplois. Varro,
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