. 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. at the top, in which the fire was ARA. 47 kindled, and an orifice at the side |or bottom, through which the libations Iof wine, or juices of the burnt offering,exuded. The cavity for the fire isshown at the top, and the orifice for ithe outflow of liquids at the bottom, ofthe right-hand figure in the cut, whi
. 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. at the top, in which the fire was ARA. 47 kindled, and an orifice at the side |or bottom, through which the libations Iof wine, or juices of the burnt offering,exuded. The cavity for the fire isshown at the top, and the orifice for ithe outflow of liquids at the bottom, ofthe right-hand figure in the cut, which jis copied from a Pompeian painting ; jthe left-hand figure is from a fictile jvase, and shows the liquid streamingout from a vent-hole placed higherup. These parts are essential toevery altar, on which victims wereburnt, or libations poured ; wherethey are wanting, though the marblebears a general resemblance to an jaltar, it is only a cippus, not an ara,a fact which archaeologists too often |lose sight of. 2. Altars were erected in the fol- jlowing situations. In the lucus, orsacred grove, before the statue of thedivinity to vhom it was consecrated(Horn. II. ii. 305.), as in the illus-tration from the arch of Trajan, inwhich the. trees represent the sacredgrove surrounding a
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