. 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. 32.), erroneouslyrestored for Seneca, but having thecentral part of the ventrale filled inwith plaster of Paris in a mannerwhich entirely alters the genuinecharacter of the object. VENUS CWpoMrn). The Venus,or best throw of the dice (tesserce),or dibs (tali) ; so called when allthe numbers came up
. 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. 32.), erroneouslyrestored for Seneca, but having thecentral part of the ventrale filled inwith plaster of Paris in a mannerwhich entirely alters the genuinecharacter of the object. VENUS CWpoMrn). The Venus,or best throw of the dice (tesserce),or dibs (tali) ; so called when allthe numbers came up iv. 8. 45. Suet. Aug. 71. com-pared with Mart. xiv. 14. VERBER. The thong of a whipfor scourging slaves (Terent. 2. 28. Tibull. i. 9. 22. Flagellum,1.) ; of a driving-whip (Virg. 106. Ov. Met xiv. 821. Flagel-lum, 2.); of a sling (Virg. 309. Fund a, 1.); of a machineby which large stones or other mis-siles are forcibly projected ( 469.). VEREDARIUS. A governmentmessenger, who carried the publicdispatches in a light cart drawn byswift horses (veredi), which werestationed for relays along the publicroads (Sidon. Ep. v. 7. Festus, Suet. Aug. 49.), believed tobe represented by the annexed exam- ple, from a bas-relief on the monu-.
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