. 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. es, because theycommenced with re-ligious illustration re-presents a Grecianyouth, crowned andhabited as one ofthese victors, whosecostume very close-ly resembles thatascribed to Nero,when he entered thecities of Italy asa hieronica (, 25.), after con-tending at the Olympic races. HIER
. 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. es, because theycommenced with re-ligious illustration re-presents a Grecianyouth, crowned andhabited as one ofthese victors, whosecostume very close-ly resembles thatascribed to Nero,when he entered thecities of Italy asa hieronica (, 25.), after con-tending at the Olympic races. HIEROPHANTA and HIERO-PHANTES (Upofpdvrrjs). A highpriest and teacher of religion amongstthe Greeks and Egyptians, corre-sponding in many respects to theRoman Pontifex Maximus. Nep. Tertull. adv. Marc. i. 13. HIEROPHANTRIA. Apriestess of similar character anddignity to the hierophanta. Grut. 538. 11. HIPPAGINES, HIPFAGI,HIPPAGOGI (Imrarywyot). Horse-transports, especially for the convey-ance of cavalry troops. Festus s. x. 25. Plin. H N. vii. xliv. 28. HIPPOCAMPUS qmroKdfiiros).A fabulous animal, having the forequarters and body of a horse, butending in the tail of a fish, like theannexed example, from a Pompeianpainting, which the poets and artists. of antiquity commonly attach to themarine car of Neptune and the Tritons. Nsev. and Lucil. ap. v. p. 120. HIPPOCENTAUROS (^Tro/ceV-ravpos). A horse-centaur, half-horseand half-man (Cic. N. D. ii. 2.), asopposed to the fish-centaur, half-man
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