. 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. 450 OCREATUS. ( covered with ornamental chasingover the surfaces left plain in ourengraving, on account of the smallscale on which the drawing is made. 2. A hunters leggin or hoot ;poetically for Pero ; which Moret. 121. OCREATUS. Wearing Greeks and Etruscans wore apair, one on eac
. 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. 450 OCREATUS. ( covered with ornamental chasingover the surfaces left plain in ourengraving, on account of the smallscale on which the drawing is made. 2. A hunters leggin or hoot ;poetically for Pero ; which Moret. 121. OCREATUS. Wearing Greeks and Etruscans wore apair, one on each leg,as frequently repre-sented on their fic-tile vases, and exhi-bited by the annexedfigure, which formsan ornament to thefront of the ridgepiece in a bronze hel-met found at Pom-peii ; the Samnites,and the gladiatorsequipped like them,wore only one, and that upon theleft leg (Liv. ix. 40. Juv. vi. 256.);and the heavy infantry of the Ro-mans also wore a single greave, buton their right leg (Veg. Mil. i. 20.);for it was their system to come atonce to close quarters, and decidethe battle at the swords point, theright leg being consequently in ad-vance and unprotected—a positionexactly the reverse of the oneadopted by those who use a spear,either for thrusting or hurling. 2. When applied to huntsmen,
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