School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . es to ancientand modern writers, as they are not required by the class of personsfor whose use the book is designed, and they are to be found inthe original work. WILLIAM SMITH. London, May 20tk, 1845. SCHOOL-DICTIONARY OP GEEEK AND KOMAN ANTIQUITIES. ABACUS (&§a^), denoted primarily asquare tablet of any description, and washence employed in the following signifi-cations : — 1. A table, or side-board, chiefly usedfor the display of gold and silver cups,and other kinds of valuable and ornamentalutensils. The use of abaci was first intro-duced
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . es to ancientand modern writers, as they are not required by the class of personsfor whose use the book is designed, and they are to be found inthe original work. WILLIAM SMITH. London, May 20tk, 1845. SCHOOL-DICTIONARY OP GEEEK AND KOMAN ANTIQUITIES. ABACUS (&§a^), denoted primarily asquare tablet of any description, and washence employed in the following signifi-cations : — 1. A table, or side-board, chiefly usedfor the display of gold and silver cups,and other kinds of valuable and ornamentalutensils. The use of abaci was first intro-duced at Rome from Asia Minor after thevictories of Cn. Manlius Vulso, b. c. 187, andtheir introduction was regarded as one ofthe marks of the growing luxury of the age. 2. A draught-board or chess-board. 3. A board used by mathematicians fordrawing diagrams, and by arithmeticiansfor the purposes of calculation. 4. In architecture, the flat square stonewhich constituted the highest member of acolumn, being placed immediately underthe A BOLL A, a cloak chiefly worn by sol-diers, and thus opposed to the toga, the o-arbof peace. [Toga.] The abolla was used bythe lower classes at Rome, and consequentlyby the philosophers who affected severity ofmanners and life.
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