. 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. il. Pat. ii. 82.) ; butthey were not worn by the Roman asa part of his ordinary costume ; forCicero {Phil. iii. 6.) reproaches theinsolence of one Tuditanus who ap-peared in public cum palla et co-thurnis. The illustration affords aspecimen of a cothurnus of this nature,from a marble figure of the goddessRoma
. 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. il. Pat. ii. 82.) ; butthey were not worn by the Roman asa part of his ordinary costume ; forCicero {Phil. iii. 6.) reproaches theinsolence of one Tuditanus who ap-peared in public cum palla et co-thurnis. The illustration affords aspecimen of a cothurnus of this nature,from a marble figure of the goddessRoma. 3. The Roman poets also makeuse of the word cothurnus, as a trans-lation of the Greek kv^pofxis (see En-dromis, 3.). In this manner it isapplied by Virgil (j<En. i. 341.), Ne-mesian (Cyneg. 90.), and SidoniusApollinaris (Carm. ii. 400.), whichlast passage minutely describes theivfipofiis, but not the cothurnus. 4. A boot worn by tragic actors onthe stage (Virg. Eel. viii. 10. Ser-vius ad /.), hav-ing a cork soleseveral inchesthick, for the ^purpose of in-creasing theirstature (compareJuv. Sat. ), and givingthem a more im-posing appear-ance ; whence theword also came tosignify a grandand dignifiedstyle. It was in order to conceal theunsightly appearance of such a chaus-. sure, that the tragic actors alwayswore long robes reaching to theground, as seen in the illustrationannexed, from a marble bas-relief ofthe Villa Albani, representing a com-pany of stage-players, though herethe artist has left the cothurni un-covered, in order to identify thecharacter of the actor. COTICULA. Diminutive ofCos; a touch-stone for assaying goldand silver. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 43. 2. A small mortar, made of thesame hard kind of stone as that usedfor hones and grindstones. N. xxxi. 45. Id. xxxvii. 54. Isi-dor. Orig. iv. 11. COTTABUS (KfcrcUBos). Agame of Sicilian origin, and a veryfavourite after-dinner amusementamongst the young men of was played in various ways,more or
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