. 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. stron. v. 434. 265. Pet. Fragm. 13. Mart- xi. 21. PETORITUM or PETORRI-TUM. A four-wheeled open car-riage, amongst the Romans usedchiefly for the transport of servantsand attendants, but of which no re-presentation is known to exist. Itwas, however, of foreign origin, pro-bably introduced from
. 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. stron. v. 434. 265. Pet. Fragm. 13. Mart- xi. 21. PETORITUM or PETORRI-TUM. A four-wheeled open car-riage, amongst the Romans usedchiefly for the transport of servantsand attendants, but of which no re-presentation is known to exist. Itwas, however, of foreign origin, pro-bably introduced from Gaul, and de-rived from the Celtic words petoar,four, and rit, awheel. Hor. Ep. ii. Id. Sat i. 6. 104. Festus Gell. xv. 30. PH^ECASIATUS. Wearingshoes of the kind called phcecasia;especially characteristic of the Ep. 113. PH^ECASIUM fyaucdffiov). Awhite shoe, proper to the Atheniangymnasiarchs and priesthood ofGreece and Alexandria ; though alsoadopted by other classes of bothsexes. Senec. Ben. vii. 21. 254. Pet. Sat. 67. 4. PHALANGA or PALANGA((j>d\ay^). A strong round pole em-ployed by porters to assist them in PHALANGA. PHALER^L. 497 carrying heavy weights, the endsbeing rested on their shoulders andthe load suspended from it between. them at the centre of gravity, as inthe annexed example, which repre-sents two of the soldiers on Trajanscolumn making use of the contrivancein question. Vitruv. x. 3. 7, 8, and 9. 2. A wooden cylinder or roller in-tended for placing under objects ofgreat weight to assist in movingthem, as, for instance, under the bot-tom of a vessel, whilst being hauledon shore, or launched from the p. 163. Varro, ap. c. Ca3S. B. C. ii. 10. 3. Pieces of valuable wood, suchas ebony for example, cut into trun-cheons or cylinders, as objects ofmerchandise. Plin. H. N. xii. 8. 4. A truncheon employed as aweapon in warfare, the origin ofwhich is attributed to the Africansduring their contests with
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