. 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. ered outsidewith raw hides or horse-hair cloth,to insure it from being set on vinea, by itself, was about eightfeet high and sixteen in length; buta sufficient number of them werejoined together in a line, and run upclose to the walls, so that the ramand other engines could be securelyplied against
. 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. ered outsidewith raw hides or horse-hair cloth,to insure it from being set on vinea, by itself, was about eightfeet high and sixteen in length; buta sufficient number of them werejoined together in a line, and run upclose to the walls, so that the ramand other engines could be securelyplied against the foundations under-neath them. Cses. B. C. ii. 2. 26. Veg. Mil iv. 15. VFNITOR (d/jLTreXovpyos). Avine-dresser. Cic. Fin. v. 14. Cato,R. R. iii 3. 8. VINITO RIUS. See Falx, 5. VIOLARIUS. One who dyescloth of a violet colour. Plaut. 5. 36. VIRGA (paSSos). Literally, agreen bough (Varro, R. R. i. 594.);whence applied to various objects,which are made from a long straightbranch cut off from the tree, cor-responding with our terms a wand,rod, switch, amongst which the mostcharacteristic are as follows : — 1. A switch for riding (Mart. ) or driving (Juv. iii. 317.), thinand tapering, without any thong, as in 726 VIRGA. the annexed example, from a fictile. vase. 2. A switch or cane for punishinghoys at school (Juv. vii. 210.), or forcarrying in the hand as a walking-cane (Ov. Fast. ii. 706.) ; hut
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