. 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. ford a distinctidea of the usual manner in whichthey were laid out, both when con-nected with and separated from thedwelling-house. 3. Taberna deversoria and meri-toria, or simply taberna. A wine-shop, by the road-side, for the conve-nience of travellers. (Vitruv. vi. Varro, R. R. i. 2. 23. 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. ford a distinctidea of the usual manner in whichthey were laid out, both when con-nected with and separated from thedwelling-house. 3. Taberna deversoria and meri-toria, or simply taberna. A wine-shop, by the road-side, for the conve-nience of travellers. (Vitruv. vi. Varro, R. R. i. 2. 23. Plaut. 3. 86. Val. Max. i. 7. ext. 10.)The Roman landlords whose estatesabutted on any of the public roads,were in the habit of erecting buildingsof this kind, in which they retailedthe produce of their estates ; and avery similar practice obtains at thepresent day amongst the Tuscannobility of Florence, where a smallwindow is frequently seen by theside of the principal entrance tomany of the great palaces, fromwhich the steward retails to thetownspeople the produce of hismasters vintage. TABERNACULUM. A tent;properly speaking, made with planks,like a booth or wooden hut (taberna,Festus, s. v.), and covered with skinsor canvass, as in the annexed exam-ple, from the column of Antoninus,. in which the boarded roof is dis-tinctly apparent; but the term isalso used more indiscriminately forany kind of tent, merely stretchedupon cords, and without any wood-work, whether erected by the sol-diery or by individuals for their ownuse. Cic, Verr. ii. 5. 12. Id. Tac. Hist. v. 22. TABERN ARIUS. A shop-| keeper. Cic. Fl. 8. Id. Fam. viii. 6. TABERNULA. (Suet. Nero,I 26.) Diminutive of Taberna. TABLFNUM and TABULF-! NUM. One of the principal apart-I ments in a Roman house, immedi-| ately adjoining the atrium audi fauces[ (Festus, s. v. Vitruv. vi. 3. 5. andj 6.), which was used in early times to| contain the family archives (Plin.| H. JY. xxxv. 2.), and as an eating-i room in a town-house.
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