. 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. e ofearthenware, and consequently of acommon description. Mart. Compare Juv. vi. 343. 3. A dish of the form and characterabove described, in which solid viandswere offered as a feast to the gods, ascontradistinguished from the patera,which held liquids only. (Festus,s. v. Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 544
. 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. e ofearthenware, and consequently of acommon description. Mart. Compare Juv. vi. 343. 3. A dish of the form and characterabove described, in which solid viandswere offered as a feast to the gods, ascontradistinguished from the patera,which held liquids only. (Festus,s. v. Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 544.)A person would have been regardedas highly irreligious who appropri-ated one of these dishes to the ser-vice of his own dinner table. ii. 7. PATELLARII, sc. Dii. Aterm of derision applied to the godsby certain wits of irreverent dispo- PATENA. PATINA. 479 sitions, suggested by the images ofthe various deities which were en-chased upon the dishes (patellce) em-ployed for holding the viands pre-sented to them at their feasts. ii. 1. 46. Compare Cic. 21. 22. Becker, QucBst. 50. PATENA ((pdrvri). A mangerfor horses, made of marble, stone, orwood, and divided into a number ofseparate compartments or cribs (lo~cult), like the annexed example, re-. presenting the interior of an ancientstable in the bay of Centorbi inSicily, which is divided into squarereceiving troughs, precisely as di-rected by Vegetius {Vet. ii. 28. 3.).2. See Patina. PATERA O/naAT?). A shallowcircular vessel, like our saucer, em-ployed for containing liquids, notsolids, that is, as a drinking, not an
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