. 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. horse (Varro, ii. 10.), or ass(Id. ii. 6.), as in the example, fromthe triumphal arch of Constantine. DORYPHORUS (topvfdpos). Ahalberdier; the name given to theJ soldiers who formed the body-guardi of the Persian kings, from the weapon; they carried ; but the word does not! occur in Latin, excepting as
. 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. horse (Varro, ii. 10.), or ass(Id. ii. 6.), as in the example, fromthe triumphal arch of Constantine. DORYPHORUS (topvfdpos). Ahalberdier; the name given to theJ soldiers who formed the body-guardi of the Persian kings, from the weapon; they carried ; but the word does not! occur in Latin, excepting as thej name of a celebrated statue by Poly-| cletes (Cic. Brut, 86. Plin. H. xxxiv. 19. § 2.), representing one of! these guards, or of a soldier armedlike them. DRACHMA (tyax/*4). _ Adrachm; the principal silver coin ofthe Greek currency, as the denariuswas of the Roman, and of whichthere were two standards of differentweights and value — the Attic andiEginetan. The Attic drachm, represented bythe annexed wood-cut, from an ori-ginal in the British Museum, of theactual size, was mostly current m thenorth of Greece, the maritime states,. and in Sicily. It contained six obols,and its average value was nearlyequal to 9|c?. of our money; butwhen Pliny (//. N. xxi. 109.) speaksof the Attic drachma and Roman de-narius as being of equal weight, it isto be understood that the latter hadbeen reduced from its original stand-ard. Hussey, Ancient Weights andMoney, p. 47—48. The iEginetan drachm, repre-sented by the next wood-cut, alsofrom an original of the same size inthe British Museum, was used inBoeotia, and some parts of northernGreece, and in all the states of thePeloponnesus except Corinth. Itwas of a higher standard than the 254 DRACO. DUUMVIRI. Attic, containing about 93 grains ofpure silver, and was worth about
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