. 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. atue of the Pio-Clementine Mu-seum (iii. 11.), similarly accoutred,they are represented with equal dis-tinctness and precision. The cuirass,as here exhibited, which was made ofvery thick leather, bronze, or othermetals, constitutes the lorica itself;but the abdomen, the thighs, the del-toid muscle, and the ar
. 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. atue of the Pio-Clementine Mu-seum (iii. 11.), similarly accoutred,they are represented with equal dis-tinctness and precision. The cuirass,as here exhibited, which was made ofvery thick leather, bronze, or othermetals, constitutes the lorica itself;but the abdomen, the thighs, the del-toid muscle, and the arm-pits, whichwould be completely exposed whenthe arm was raised above the level ofthe breast, were protected by a seriesof leather straps (^repi/yes), usuallyappended to it round the arm-holesand lower rim of its two plates, whichfell over the upper part of the arm,like a sleeve, and over the thighs,like a kilt, as exhibited in the illus -tration s. Legatus. 3. (^wpa| Aemdwros). A corseletof scale armour in which the scales(squama, Virg. j3Sn. ix. 707. xi. Ital. i. 527.), composed of hornor metal, and sewed on to a basis ofleather or quilted linen, were formedto imitate the scales of a fish (Ae- 7R?), which are mostly circular at theirbottom edges, and overlap one another. in regular succession, as in the an-nexed example, from one of the tro-phies on Trajans Column. 4. (Sa>pa£ (poXLdwros). A corseletof scale armour, made of the samematerials as the last, similarly at-tached, but having its scales formedto imitate those of a serpent ( Ov. Met. iii. 63. 423. squamosum thoraca depelle colubra?), which are mostly an-gular at their extremities, and overlapin a lozenge shape, so that one of the
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