. 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. and xLT<^VL0V with refer-ence to women. Lucian. Lexiph. 27. xviii. 416. TURBO (j86/A§tf, p6/x€os, (rrP6fi€os).A boys whipping-top (Virg. 2En. vii. 378. Tibull. i. 5. 3.), similar to thosenow in use. 2. The whorl or whirl of a spindle(Catull. 64. 315. Auct. Consol. adLiv. 164.), technically term
. 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. and xLT<^VL0V with refer-ence to women. Lucian. Lexiph. 27. xviii. 416. TURBO (j86/A§tf, p6/x€os, (rrP6fi€os).A boys whipping-top (Virg. 2En. vii. 378. Tibull. i. 5. 3.), similar to thosenow in use. 2. The whorl or whirl of a spindle(Catull. 64. 315. Auct. Consol. adLiv. 164.), technically termed Ver-ticillum ; which see. TURIBULUM or THURIBU-LUM (bv/juarripiov). A censer, orvessel in which incense was burnt(Liv. xxix. 14.), as contradistin-guished from acerra, the box in whichit was carried to the temple, andthence taken out to be put into thecenser, or sprinkled upon the burningaltar. It was often carried in thehand by a chain, and swung to andfro for the purpose of diffusing theodoriferous vapour along the streets(Curt. viii. 9.) or through the temples(Virg. JEn. xi. 481.), in the samemanner as still practised in the RomanCatholic churches. The illustrationrepresents an original of bronze foundat Pompeii. One of the three chainsby which it was suspended from the. hand is attached to the top of the lid,which would be raised a little, andthe vapour thus permitted to escape,every time the vessel was swungbackwards or forwards. TURICREMUS or THURTC-REMUS. On which incense is burnt;as ara turicrema (Lucret. ii. JEn. iv. 453.), an altar forburning incense (wood-cut s. Ara,6.); focus turicremus (Ov. Her. ), a brazier for the same. Wood-cut s. Focus, 3. TURMA (JfAij). A troop or com- TURRICULA. TURRIS. 701 pany of cavalry, originally consistingof thirty men and three officers (de-curiones). Varro, L. L. v. 91. TURRICULA (nvpyidiov). Dimi-nutive of Turris. Vitruv. x. 13. 6. 2. A dice-box, formed in the shapeof a tower (Mart. xiv. 16.); whenceit is also
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