. 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. 3. and 5. Pet. Sat. 115. 6.); the firstregular effort in building of thepastoral ages, and which continuedafterwards as the constant model forthe residence of a village this description was the thatchedcottage of Romulus on the Capitolinehill (casa Romuli, Vitruv. ii. 1. 21. 6.), and
. 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. 3. and 5. Pet. Sat. 115. 6.); the firstregular effort in building of thepastoral ages, and which continuedafterwards as the constant model forthe residence of a village this description was the thatchedcottage of Romulus on the Capitolinehill (casa Romuli, Vitruv. ii. 1. 21. 6.), and those of the abo-riginal inhabitants of Latium, ofwhich the illustration here introduced the portico attached to the temple ofPandrosos at Athens. Vitruv. i. 1. 5. CASA. Generally a cottage;understood in the same latitude ofmeaning which we apply to thatword in our own language ; for in-stance : — 1. A cottage proper (Vitruv. ii. may be regarded as an authentic andhighly curious example. It is copiedfrom an earthenware vase, now pre-served amongst the Egyptian andother antiquities in the British Mu-seum, but originally employed as asepulchral urn, which was discoveredin the year 1817 amongst severalothers in the form of temples, hel-mets, &c, at Marino, near the ancientAlba Longa, imbedded in a sort ofwhite earth under a thick stratum ofvolcanic lava (the Italian peperino),which flowed from the Alban mountbefore its eruptions became extinct ;previously to which period these vasesmust in consequence have been depo-sited there, an irresistible proof oftheir great antiquity. Visconti, Let-tera al Sigr. Giuseppe Carnevali?sopra alcuni Vasi sepolcrali rinvenutinella vicinanza della anticaAlba Longa,Roma. 1817. 2. A small country-house ( vi. 43.) ; built, as we should say,in cottage fashion, upon a far lessgrand or magnificent scale than theregular villa or country mansion, asrepresented in the annexed e
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