. 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. Italians ; but, amongst the Greeks andRomans, it appears to have been moreparticularly employed as a festivedecoration, and was used to ornamentbuildings as well as persons. ( iv. 738. Cic. Leg. ii. 24.) Theillustration is from an ivory carvingin the Florentine Gallery, supposedto represent M. Antony
. 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. Italians ; but, amongst the Greeks andRomans, it appears to have been moreparticularly employed as a festivedecoration, and was used to ornamentbuildings as well as persons. ( iv. 738. Cic. Leg. ii. 24.) Theillustration is from an ivory carvingin the Florentine Gallery, supposedto represent M. Antony in the cos-tume of a follower of Bacchus, andresembles exactly the descriptionwhich Cicero gives of Verres, with achaplet on his head, and a garlandround his neck — ipse autem coronamhabebat unam in capite, alteram incollo. Verr. ii. 5. 11. 14. A cornice, or projecting mem-ber, used to decorate walls, either asa finish on the top (see the next il-lustration), or for the purpose ofmaking ornamental divisions on anypart of the surface. Vitruv. v. vii. 3. 4. Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 59. 15. A particular member of thecornice which crowns an entablatureunder the roof, still called by ourarchitects the corona. It is that par-. ticular member which has a broadflat face situated between the cymarecta above, and the cymatium, or bedmoulding, below, from which it hasa bold projection. (Vitruv. iv. 3. 6.)The Roman architects, unlike ours,do not appear to have appropriatedany distinct word to express collec-tively all the members of which acornice is composed; consequently,they did not regard the cornice asan entire portion of an entablature,but as several distinct members,which are always enumerated sepa-rately : viz. the sima; cymatium in 208 CORONARIA. CORTINA. summo; corona; cymatium in , however, uses • the GreekKopoouis in a collective sense, as equi-valent to our cornice. CORONARIA. A female whomakes garlands and chaplets. xxi. 3. See next illustration. C
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