. 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. Theexample is from a terra-cotta at Vel-letri, after Ginzrot. 2. Stimulus cuspidatus rallo. Agoad with a spud (ralluni) affixed toone end, which was employed by the ploughman in cleansing the plough-share, as the point was for drivinghis oxen. Plin. H. N. xviii. 49. § example is from an Etruscanbronze.
. 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. Theexample is from a terra-cotta at Vel-letri, after Ginzrot. 2. Stimulus cuspidatus rallo. Agoad with a spud (ralluni) affixed toone end, which was employed by the ploughman in cleansing the plough-share, as the point was for drivinghis oxen. Plin. H. N. xviii. 49. § example is from an Etruscanbronze. STFPES ((ttvttos). A round stakefixed in the ground (); as a land mark (Ov. /y|Fast. ii. 642.) ; as a stay fortethering other things to (Id. ||iv. 331. Suet. Nero, 29.), or ra|for supporting them, as in the j M|annexed example from the I Wcolumn of Trajan, which re- [[fillpresents the manner in whichthe soldiery piled their helmets andshields when engaged upon fieldworks, making fortifications, &c. 2. A stake set up for practisingrecruits at their exercises (Mart. ) ; same as Palus. STFVA (exerAT?). The ploughstaff, or handle of a plough ; consist-ing, in its simplest form, of a singleupright branch (Varro, L. L. v. 135.),forming part of the same piece as the. plough tail (bums), which the plough-man held in his left hand to guidethe machine, or pressed down tomake the share penetrate the ground,in the manner shown by the annexedexample, from a Roman bas-relief;which also graphically illustrates suchexpressions as stivee pcene rectus inni- titur (Columell. i. 9. 3.) ; stivee in-nixus (Ov. Met. viii. 218.); stivampremens (Id. Fast. iv. 826.). Otherplough-staffs, upon a more improvedplan, are exhibited under the wordsAratrum and Bura. STLATA. A particular kind ofsea-going vessel (Aul. Gell. x. Ep. xxii. 31.), constructedwith an unusual breadth of beam,and lying low upon the water (Fes-tus s. v.) ; characteristics which arenot sufficiently apparent on a
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