A dictionary of Greek and Roman . hoop. The Greekboys used to exercise themselves like ours withtrundling a hoop. It was a bronze ring, and hadsometimes bells attached to it. (Mart. xi. 22. 2,xiv. 168, 169.) It was impelled by means of ahook with a wooden handle, called clavis (Propertiii. 12), and 4\arrip. From the Greeks thiscustom passed to the Romans, who consequentlyadopted the Greek term. (Hor. Carm. iii. 24. 57.)The hoop was used at the Gymnasium ( c. ; Ovid. Trist. ii. 485) ; and, therefore, on oneof the gems in the Stosch collection at Berlin,which is engraved
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . hoop. The Greekboys used to exercise themselves like ours withtrundling a hoop. It was a bronze ring, and hadsometimes bells attached to it. (Mart. xi. 22. 2,xiv. 168, 169.) It was impelled by means of ahook with a wooden handle, called clavis (Propertiii. 12), and 4\arrip. From the Greeks thiscustom passed to the Romans, who consequentlyadopted the Greek term. (Hor. Carm. iii. 24. 57.)The hoop was used at the Gymnasium ( c. ; Ovid. Trist. ii. 485) ; and, therefore, on oneof the gems in the Stosch collection at Berlin,which is engraved in the annexed woodcut, it isaccompanied by the jar of oil and the laurel branch,the signs of effort and of victory. On each side ofthis we have represented another gem from thesame collection. Both of these exhibit nakedyouths trundling the hoop by means of the hookor key. These show the size of the hoop, whichin the middle figure has also three small rings orbells on its circumference. (Winckelmann, Pierres Gravies, pp. 452—455.). In a totally different manner hoops were usedin the performances of tumblers and describes a female dancer who receivestwelve hoops in succession, throwing them into theair and catching them again, her motions beingregulated by another female plajing on the pipe.(Sympos. ii. 7, 8.) On the use of rpoxos, to denote the potterswheel, see Fictile. [J. Y.] TROJAE LUDUS. [Circus, p. 288, b.] TROPAEUM (rpoiraiov, Att. rpona7ov, Aristoph. Plut. 453), a trophy, a sign and me-morial of victory, which was erected on the field TROPAEUM. of battle where the enemy had turned (rp6ira>,rpoiTT]) to flight, and in case of a victory gainedat sea, on the nearest land. The expression, forraising or erecting a trophy, is rpoiraiou crTrjaaior (TT^aaadai, to which may be added dirb or TToXe/jLiuv. (Wolf, ad Dem. in Lept. p. 296.) When the battle was not decisive, or each partyconsidered it had some claims to the victor}r, bo
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