. 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. tended to be drawn across a road,opening, or ride in the cover, inorder to prevent the game fromgetting out of bounds. (Grat. Hor. Epod. 2. 23. Lucret. Compare Serv. ad Virg.| iv. 131.) Though the exact natureI and character of this net is open toI dispute, yet it would appear from a, gener
. 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. tended to be drawn across a road,opening, or ride in the cover, inorder to prevent the game fromgetting out of bounds. (Grat. Hor. Epod. 2. 23. Lucret. Compare Serv. ad Virg.| iv. 131.) Though the exact natureI and character of this net is open toI dispute, yet it would appear from a, general comparison of the passagesj in which mention of it occurs, that it| was similar in form and use to theRete ; with the exception of beingsmaller, and employed as a subsidiaryi to the larger one, across narrow and| confined passes, which would other-I wise give an inlet into the opencountry. I 2. Same as Plagula. AfraniusI and Varro, ap. Non. s. v. pp. 378. Diminutive ofPlaga, but applied with the followingspecial senses : — 1. A curtain or a rideau, suspendedlike a net round the couches of atriclinium to keep off the dust or cur-rents of air from the guests recliningat table, as in the annexed example PLAGUNCULA. PLAUSTRUM. 509 from a bas-relief in the British Mu-. seum. Liv. xxxix. 6. 2. A curtain which could be drawnor withdrawn round the sides of apalanquin (lectica), so as to seclude theinmate when desired, or convert thewhole into an open carriage. 10. and illustration s. Lectica. 3. A breadth of cloth, two or moreof which, when sewed together, makeup a dress. Varro, L. L. ix. 79. 4. A strip or file of paper, severalof which, when glued together, makeup a sheet. Plin. H. N. xiii. 23. PLAGUNCULA QnXayydv). Awax doll. Cic. Att. vi. Ernesti, Clavis,s. v. Callim. Dem. 92. Pupa. PLANIPES. An actor whoplayed a part in a spe-cies of low farce, termed amime (mimus), and whoreceived that designationbecause he came uponthe stage with naked feet,without eit
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