. 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. or chain, called the handle (ansa).The short end of the yard was fur-nished with a hook, to which theobjects to be weighed were fixed, andsometimes with a scale (lancula) forholding them; the longest end, onthe other side of the centre of revo-lution, with a sliding weight (cequi-pondium). Vitruv. x. 3. 4. Th
. 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. or chain, called the handle (ansa).The short end of the yard was fur-nished with a hook, to which theobjects to be weighed were fixed, andsometimes with a scale (lancula) forholding them; the longest end, onthe other side of the centre of revo-lution, with a sliding weight (cequi-pondium). Vitruv. x. 3. 4. Thewhole of these particulars mentionedby Vitruvius are exhibited in the an-nexed figures, both from originalsdiscovered at Pompeii. 2. Sometimes used without discri-mination for libra, a balance. 35. 4. Suet. Vesp. 25. 3. A curricle bar or yoke, placed. across the withers of a pair of horses,and to which the pole (temo) wasattached, as in the annexed examplefrom a painting at Pompeii. iv. 3. 35. 3. A kind of dish, probably of aflat circular form, like the scale ap-pended to the steel-yard in the firstexample. Corn, Nepos. ap. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. Officials or public servants who attended upon Romanmagistrates in the provinces, and moreespecially employed for carrying let-ters, messages, dispatches, &c. ( ii. 17. ib. 19. x. 21.) Theiroffice was abolished by SeptimiusSeverus, and the duties dischargedby them transferred to the Alex. Sev. 52. Ulp. Dig. I. 16. 4. STEGA (ariyq). A word merelytransferred from the Greek, signifyingthe deck of a ship (Plaut. Bacch. 44. Id. Stick, in. 1. 12.); forwhich the Romans use the expressionConstratum navis, under which anillustration is given. STEELE (uT^Kri). A word merelytransferred from the Greek ( N. vi. 32.) ; for which the genuine
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