. 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. gravity, in order to give it a greaterimpetus when thrown. (Liv. xxxvih 26 AMITE S. 41. Ovid. Met. xii. 221. Sil. Ital. ) This illustration is taken fromone of Sir W. Hamiltons fictile vases;but in the celebrated mosaic of Pom-peii, believed to represent the battleof Issus, a broken spear provided witha
. 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. gravity, in order to give it a greaterimpetus when thrown. (Liv. xxxvih 26 AMITE S. 41. Ovid. Met. xii. 221. Sil. Ital. ) This illustration is taken fromone of Sir W. Hamiltons fictile vases;but in the celebrated mosaic of Pom-peii, believed to represent the battleof Issus, a broken spear provided witha similar appendage is seen lying onthe ground. 2. The thong or strap by whichthe soleae, crepidae, and similar kindsof shoes were fastened on the foot(Festus, s. v.), as in the example froma marble statue at Rome, where theamentum is shown by the broad flatthong which passes over the instep,. and through the loops {ansae) affixedto the sides of the sole. Pliny men-tions a sitting statue of Cornelia, themother of the Gracchi, which wasremarkable for having a mere soleunder the foot without any thong tofasten it (soleis sine amento insignis, xxxiv. 14.) ; and similar omis-sions are not unfrequently observablein the Pompeian paintings, only tobe accounted for by the caprice orinadvertence of the artists. AMITES. A/)airo/sM/te,andpar-ticularly applied to the two long poles,like those of a sedan-chair, whichprojected from the front and back ofa Basterna, so as to form a double
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