. 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. on the fleshy part of the right arm, 240 DEXTROCHERIUM. DIAMICTON. as in the example, from a painting atPompeii. Cyprian, de Habitu Virgin. DEXTROCHERIUM. A brace-let worn round the wrist of the right. arm, as in the annexed example, sup-posed to represent the portrait of aPompeian lady, from a painting intha
. 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. on the fleshy part of the right arm, 240 DEXTROCHERIUM. DIAMICTON. as in the example, from a painting atPompeii. Cyprian, de Habitu Virgin. DEXTROCHERIUM. A brace-let worn round the wrist of the right. arm, as in the annexed example, sup-posed to represent the portrait of aPompeian lady, from a painting inthat city. Capitolin. Maxim, 6. Jun. 1. DIARATHRARIUS. One whomakes diabathra. Plaut Aul. iiL 5. 39. DIABATHRUM (Sideadpov). Aparticular kind of slipper or sandal(soled) of Greek original (Festus,s. u.) ; respecting which nothing fur-ther is known, than that it was es-pecially characteristic of the femalesex (Eustath. ad Horn. Od. v. 9.) ;whence, if attributed to males, as byNsevius (ap. Varro, L. L. vii. 53.), itis only in ridicule, and pointedlymeant to designate an effeminatestyle of dress. From this it may beinferred that Pollux is mistakenwhen he makes it common to bothsexes. Onomast. vii. 90. DIACHYTON. A particularkind of wine produced by drying thegrapes in the sun for several daysbefore they were squeezed. N. xiv. 11. DIADEMA (SmS^a). A dia- dem ; which, in itsoriginal notion,means the blueand white bandworn by the Asi-atic monarchsround the tiara(Xen. Cy
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