. 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. ngula, for the shoul-der band (balteus), which supportedthe shield, is separately mentioned. 5. (didfa/jia, ireplCcc/jia). An articlein female attire similar to the Cinctusof males (Varro,L. L. v. 114.),viz. a short pet-ticoat reachingfrom the waist tothe knees, whichwas worn in ear-ly times insteadof a tunic
. 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. ngula, for the shoul-der band (balteus), which supportedthe shield, is separately mentioned. 5. (didfa/jia, ireplCcc/jia). An articlein female attire similar to the Cinctusof males (Varro,L. L. v. 114.),viz. a short pet-ticoat reachingfrom the waist tothe knees, whichwas worn in ear-ly times insteadof a tunic, espe-cially by womenwho led an activeor laborious life ;whence it is verycommonly assigned to the Amazo-nian women on the fictile vases, fromone of which the illustration is co-pied. CINIFLO. A slave attached tothe female part of the household,whose business it was either to heatthe irons for the ornatrix ( ad Hor. Sat. i. 2. 98.) whenshe was dressing her mistresss hair ;or, according to Servius (ad xii. 611.), to procure and ad-minister the powder (cinis) whichwomen employed for tinting theirhair of a light auburn colour. CIPPUS (o-rrjXr)). A short roundpost or pillar of stone set up to markthe boundaries between adjacentlands or neighbouring states. (Sim-.
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