. 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. at table. Pet. 7. 5. A board used by the Romansfor one of their games of skill. Thecircumstance of dice as well as coun-ters being mentioned in connectionwith the game played upon the alveus(Plin. xxxvii. 6. Val. Max. viii. 8. 2.),implies that that game was the ludusduodecim scriptorum, in which, 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. at table. Pet. 7. 5. A board used by the Romansfor one of their games of skill. Thecircumstance of dice as well as coun-ters being mentioned in connectionwith the game played upon the alveus(Plin. xxxvii. 6. Val. Max. viii. 8. 2.),implies that that game was the ludusduodecim scriptorum, in which, as inour back-gammon, the move was de-cided by a throw of the dice. Thealveus, therefore, must have resembledin some respects our back-gammonboard, and been divided in the samemanner as the abacus (see Abacus,No. 2.), or if any difference reallyexisted between the meaning of thesetwo words, it is possible that the lat-ter term was strictly used when theboard consisted of a marble slab ; theformer when made like a wooden traywith raised edges, as indeed the ori-ginal notions of the two words ofthemselves indicate. 6. A hot-water bath, constructedin the floor of a bathing-room at theopposite extremity to that whichcontained the Labrum (Vitruv. v. Marquez, Case degli Antichi i?o-. mani, § 317.), and furnished with a stepat the bottom, which formed a seatfor the bather when he descended intoit. (Auctor. ad Herenn. iv. 10.) Theillustration here given is a section ofthe alveus in the public baths at Pom-peii. The tinted part is the flooringof the room formed of brickwork, inwhich the flues through which thehot air circulated are observable, oneunder the bath itself, and four othersunder the general flooring, a is thealveus; b the seat on which the bathersat (gradus, Vitr. /. c.); c a low para- ALVUS. AMENTUM. 25 pet wall forming the upper part of the >bath (pluteus, Vitr. I. c), from which Itwo steps on the outside lead down |to the floor of the room. The generalplan of the a
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