. 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. board ship, the officer who gave outthe chaunt (celeusma), which wasx x 2 340 HORTULANUS. HOSTIA. sung or played to make the rowerskeep the stroke, and, as it were,encourage them at their work ( iii. 619. Compare Virg. 177. Serv. ad /.), whence thename (solet hortator remiges hortarier,Plaut.
. 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. board ship, the officer who gave outthe chaunt (celeusma), which wasx x 2 340 HORTULANUS. HOSTIA. sung or played to make the rowerskeep the stroke, and, as it were,encourage them at their work ( iii. 619. Compare Virg. 177. Serv. ad /.), whence thename (solet hortator remiges hortarier,Plaut. Merc. iv. 2. 5.). He sat onthe stern of the vessel, with a trun-cheon in his hand, which he usedto heat the time, as represented inthe annexed engraving, from theVatican Virgil. HORTULANUS. A nurseryman,seedsman, or general gardener. (Ma-. crob. Sat. vii. 3. Apul. Met. 64. ix. p. 199.) It is also pro-bable that the same name was used todesignate a florist, or flower gardener,as contradistinguished from topia-rius, who attended to the shrubs andevergreens, and from olitor, the kit-chen gardener ; for we do not meetwith any other name to designate theperson who pursues this branch ofthe gardeners art; though it is clear,from the annexed engraving, whichis copied from a fresco painting inthe palace of Titus, that flower gar-dening was a favourite occupation inhis day; and the original designshows many other gardening opera-tions, besides the two of potting andplanting out, exhibited in the abovespecimen. HORTULUS (K7jmov). Diminu-tive of Hortus. Catull. 61. iii. 226. HORTUS (Krjiros). A pleasure-ground or garden; which, from thedescriptions left us, appears to havebeen very similar in style and ar-rangement to that of a modernItalian villa. Where space permittedit was divided into shady avenues(gestationes) f
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