. 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. the picture above, renders it probablethat they were represented as atrophy, which the owner of the tombhad really taken from some enemy inbattle. The object and the paintingidentify the instrument with its name,which hitherto had not been accom-plished. PHALANGARII or FALAN-GARII. Porters who carried thingso
. 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. the picture above, renders it probablethat they were represented as atrophy, which the owner of the tombhad really taken from some enemy inbattle. The object and the paintingidentify the instrument with its name,which hitherto had not been accom-plished. PHALANGARII or FALAN-GARII. Porters who carried thingsof bulk or great weight with theassistance of a strong pole (phalangd).Four, six, and even eight men bythis means combined their strengthfor the transport of a single object,as shown by the annexed example,from a terra-cotta lamp, representingeight porters bearing a cask of wine,suspended in the manner Vitruv. x. 3. 7. Inscript. ap. Fa-bretti, p. 10. 2. Soldiers formed into a Alex. Sev. 50. PHALANGFTES (<pa\ayy(rVs).A soldier armed and equipped in thesame manner as those of the Macedo-nian phalanx. Liv. xxxvii. 40. xlii. 51. PH AL/ERiE (Ta <f)d\apa). Bosses3 s 498 PHALERATUS. PHARETRATUS. of gold, silver, or other metals, castor chased with some appropriate de-vice in relief; such, for instance, asthe head of a god, image of a king oremperor, or other allusive design,
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