. 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. covered in clearing the bed of theriver Witham, near Tattershall, inLincolnshire, which it will be per-ceived resembles precisely the instru-ment held by the liticen in the pre-ceding illustration. It is rather morethan four feet long, made of brass,in three joints, like a modern flute,and has been gilt. 2. A
. 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. covered in clearing the bed of theriver Witham, near Tattershall, inLincolnshire, which it will be per-ceived resembles precisely the instru-ment held by the liticen in the pre-ceding illustration. It is rather morethan four feet long, made of brass,in three joints, like a modern flute,and has been gilt. 2. An augurs wand (Virg. 187.); which was a short stick(brevis, Gell. v. 8.), bent into a twistat the end, like one side of a bishopscrosier, of which it is supposed tohave formed the model. Liv. i. Div. i. 17. It was used for de-scribing or marking out imaginarydivisions in the heavens, for the pur-poses of divination; and received itsname from a certain resemblance. which it bore to the military instru-ment last described (Porphyr. adHor. Od. i. 1. 23. Gell. Orelliad Cic. I. c.) ; but in works of art,the end of it is not formed with agentle curve, like the trumpet andthe shepherds crook {pedum), but isalways twisted into a spiral shape,like the annexed examples ; one of LODIX. 389 which represents the instrument itself,from the frieze on an ancient templeunder the Capitol at Rome (supposedtemple of Saturn), and the other, anaugur with the wand in his hand,from a medal of M. Antoninus. LIXiE. Camp followers; personsof free birth, who followed an armyinto the field with the object of sup-plying the soldiery with goods andprovisions of various kinds, as asource of individual profit. 1. Val. Max. ii. 7. 2. 2. By Apuleius {Met. i. p. 18.),servants or attendants upon a magis-trate, such as the lictors. LOCARIUM. The price orsum paid for lodgings at an inn orlodging house. Varro, L. L. v. 15. LOCARIUS. One who makes aprofit by relinquish
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