. 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. alternately over andunder every thread of the warp, inorder to separate the whole of theminto two parcels for receiving theleashes (licia) ; and finally the yarnbeam (scapus), to which the threadsor yarns forming the length of thecloth are fastened. In this loom theweb is driven from below upwards;in the foll
. 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. alternately over andunder every thread of the warp, inorder to separate the whole of theminto two parcels for receiving theleashes (licia) ; and finally the yarnbeam (scapus), to which the threadsor yarns forming the length of thecloth are fastened. In this loom theweb is driven from below upwards;in the following specimen it is drivendownwards from above; but in bothof them the weaver stood at his workinstead of sitting. 2. Tela jugalis. The commonestand simplest kind of loom in ordinaryuse amongst the Romans (Cato, B. and 14.), so termed because ithad no cloth beam (insubulum), theyarns being merely attached to ayoke (jugum) on its top (Ov. Met ), as in the annexed example, re-presenting Circes loom in the Vati-can Virgil. Schneider (Index. B. s. Tela) con-siders that the telajugalis is opposed tothe upright loom, andthat it designates amachine of similarconstruction to thosenow in use, in whichthe warp is spread inan horizontal direction,so that the weaver sat. instead of standing. But it does notappear that looms of that descriptionwere known to the Romans of Varrosday, for they are only alluded to byArtemidorus (iii. 36.) and Servius(ad Virg. JEn. vi. 14.), and no re-presentation of the kind has beendiscovered in any of the ancientmonuments ; and, furthermore, it isreasonable to conclude that looms ofthe most ordinary description wouldbe used in farmhouses, where theywere only applied for making thecommonest articles for the use ofslaves; and in both the passagesreferred to from Varro, the tela ju-galis is enumerated amongst the in-strumenta rustica. 3. The ivarp (Virg. Georg. i. 285.) ;i. e. the series of strongly twistedthreads or yarns, extended on a lo
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