. 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. t Pompeii,where the doors are usually placedentirely behind the door case. ANTEPILANI. The men the battle array of the Romanlegion, were drawn up before thePilani or Triarii, who were postedin the third line. Thus it is a generalterm, comprising the soldiers of thetwo first lines, and including both th
. 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. t Pompeii,where the doors are usually placedentirely behind the door case. ANTEPILANI. The men the battle array of the Romanlegion, were drawn up before thePilani or Triarii, who were postedin the third line. Thus it is a generalterm, comprising the soldiers of thetwo first lines, and including both theHastati and Principes, as they wererespectively called. Liv. viii. 8. ANTERIDES (ipei<r/mra). But-tresses built up against the outside ofa wall to support it if weak ( 8. 6.), seldom employed by theGreek or Roman architects, exceptto strengthen a foundation. Theillustration shows the construction ofthe Cloaca Maxima at Rome, withexternal buttresses on each side ofthe masonry, as seen in an excavationsuperintended by Piranesi. Thesebuttresses, however, are formed of adifferent stone from the rest of thework, and were not part of the original ANTE SIGNANI. ANTLIA. 41 construction, but may be regardedas vestiges of the repairs which thesewers underwent upon the occasion. alluded to by Dionysius (iii. 67.),when a sum of not less than 200,000/.of our money was laid out upon them. ANTESIGNANI. A body ofthe boldest and best men of thelegion, who were stationed imme-diately before the standards to pre-vent their being captured by theenemy. Cses. i. 57. Liv. xxii. ix. 39. ANTESTOR. To summon a per-son, or ask him to become witnessthat a defendant refuses to come intocourt. On such occasions the plaintiffasked any of the bystanders to bearwitness of the defendants contempt,by the words licet antestari; upon re-ceiving his assent, he touched the earof his witness, then seized upon theperson of his opponent, and draggedhim forcibly into the court. iv. 9
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