. 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. emaining repre-sentations of ancient fans on the fie- 638 TABELLARIUS. TABERNA. tile vases and Pompeian paintings,are made of feathers and lotus leaves,as explained and illustrated s. Fla- BELLUM. 9. Tabella Uminis. The leaf of awooden door; which was made, likeour own, out of a number of separateslabs. Catul
. 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. emaining repre-sentations of ancient fans on the fie- 638 TABELLARIUS. TABERNA. tile vases and Pompeian paintings,are made of feathers and lotus leaves,as explained and illustrated s. Fla- BELLUM. 9. Tabella Uminis. The leaf of awooden door; which was made, likeour own, out of a number of separateslabs. Catull. xxxii. 5. and Janua. 10. A booth, made of boards, anderected by the candidates at the Co-mitia for the reception of their voters,to shelter them from the heat of thesun or moisture of the , iii. 2. 1. 11. A particular kind of pastry,so termed from being made in a flatsquare mould. Mart. xi. 31. TABELLARIUS (ypa^ard^o-pos). A letter-carrier, or specialmessenger, by whom the correspond-ence of a private individual, or thegovernment despatches, were con-veyed to the friends of the formeror to the employers of the latter; butnot a postman, in our sense of theword, for the ancients had no suchconvenience as a general post. ( ii. 31. Id. Fam. xii. 12. 17.) The illustration is from a se-pulchral bas-relief, with the inscrip-tion Tabellarius underneath. TAB ELL10. A notary, em-ployed in drawing out legal docu- Iments: a name which came intouse under the Empire, and designatesa similar employment to that of the |Scriba under the republic. 9. 19. 1. Ulp. Dig. 48. Capitol. Macrin. 4. TABERNA. Literally, a hutformed with planks (tabulce), theearliest style of building amongst theRomans (Hor. Od. I 4, 13. Ulp. Dig. 50. 10. 183. Festus, s. Adtu-bernalis) ; thence — 2. A shop for the sale of retailcommodities (Cic. Varro, ); so named, because in oldRome, the shops consisted for themost part of boarded stalls projectingfrom the
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