. 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. nguished from taberna, a shopwhere retail goods are sold, and fromapotheca, & magazine or store; theparticular kind being indicated bythe name of the workmen em-ployed in it ; as, officina fullonum(Plin. xxxv. 40. § 39.), offullers and scourers ; tingentium ( 62.), of dyers; cerariorum ( 8.)
. 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. nguished from taberna, a shopwhere retail goods are sold, and fromapotheca, & magazine or store; theparticular kind being indicated bythe name of the workmen em-ployed in it ; as, officina fullonum(Plin. xxxv. 40. § 39.), offullers and scourers ; tingentium ( 62.), of dyers; cerariorum ( 8.), of smiths; cetariorum (Co-lumell. viii. 17. 12.), of dry salters;and so on. OLITOR. A kitchen gardener,as contradistinguished from topia-rius, who attended to the shrubs and I evergreens. Columell. x. 229. Id. j xi. 1. 2. ! OLITORIUS, sc. tortus, a kit-chen garden (Ulp. Dig. 50. 16. 198. ;: sc. forum, a vegetable market Liv.; xxi. 62. ; OLLA. A large jar or pot of very common use and manufacture,I being formed| of baked earth| (Columell, 8. 7. Id. xii.! 43. 12.), though sometimes me-; tal was eni-j ployed for the same object. (Avian. Fab. xi. Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 20.) It had a flat bottom, swelling| sides, very wide mouth, and lid to cover it; and was employed for3 M 2. 452 OLLAR1UM. OPIFERffi.
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