. 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. The illustration is copied from thearch of Septimius Severus. POSTIS (irapaards, <TTa6fi6s). Thejamb of a door case; i e. an uprightpillar, or a post, one of which isplaced on each side of a door-way,resting upon the sill and supportingthe lintel overhead, as shown by theannexed cut representing a stone do
. 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. The illustration is copied from thearch of Septimius Severus. POSTIS (irapaards, <TTa6fi6s). Thejamb of a door case; i e. an uprightpillar, or a post, one of which isplaced on each side of a door-way,resting upon the sill and supportingthe lintel overhead, as shown by theannexed cut representing a stone door-case, now remaining in one of the. streets of Pompeii. 3 x Cic. Att. iii. 15. 522 postomis. PR^ECINCTIO. Ov. Am. ii. I. 27. Val. Max. ix. Vitruv. iv. 6. 2. The poets apply the word in amore indefinite sense ; sometimesusing it for the door itself (foris), orone of its valves, or for the style(scapus cardinalis) forming the pivot(cardo) on which the leaf revolved. POSTOMIS. An instrumentemployed for the same purpose as thetwitch is by our grooms and farriers,to hold a horse by the nose, in orderto keep him perfectly still and tract-able, whilst being handled, or dressed,or submitted to any nice operation(Non. s. v. p. 22). It was made withtwo branches ending in semicircularprongs, like a pair of pincers, theends of which, being inserted in thenostrils, were pressed together by a
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