. 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. e superstructureof a circus is exhibited. CIRRATUS. Of men or women(Mart. ix. 30. Ammian. xiv. 6. 20.) ;see Cirrus 1. Of cloth fabrics (Ca-pitoL Pertinax. 8.); see Cirrus 8. CIRRUS. Properly, a lock ofcurly hair, growing in a full andnatural curl, as contradistinguishedfrom Cincinnus, a ringlet or twistedcurl
. 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. e superstructureof a circus is exhibited. CIRRATUS. Of men or women(Mart. ix. 30. Ammian. xiv. 6. 20.) ;see Cirrus 1. Of cloth fabrics (Ca-pitoL Pertinax. 8.); see Cirrus 8. CIRRUS. Properly, a lock ofcurly hair, growing in a full andnatural curl, as contradistinguishedfrom Cincinnus, a ringlet or twistedcurl, mostly made with the irons ;such, for instance, as was natural tothe youth of Greece, before they at-tained the age of manhood, whentheir locks were cut off, and dedicatedto some deity (Varro, ap. Non. 94.); or to the Germans ( xiii. 164.) and Gauls, who weredistinguished amongst the ancientsfor the abundance and beauty of theirhair, and, consequently, in all worksof art, are universally characterizedby this property. See the illustration, S. COMATUS. 2. Cirrus in vertice (juaAAbs bfiKf]-rov, Gloss. Vet.) A tuft of hairdrawn up all round the head, andtied into a bunch on the occiput, aswas the practice of athletes, wrestlers,boxers, &c, in order to avoid being. seized by the hair in the heat ofcontest, as exhibited in the illustra-tion, from a bas-relief in the Va-tican, represent-ing a pair examplelikewise explainsa passage ofSuetonius {Nero,45.), in which it is related, thatduring the insurrection of Vindex,and while the city of Rome was suf-fering severely from famine, a vesselarrived from Alexandria, which,instead of being laden with grain,only brought a cargo of fine sand forthe use of the athletes maintainedby the emperor. The population,enraged at this, fastened a tuft ofhair (cirrus in vertice) on the top ofall his statues, with a pasquinadebelow in Greek characters, alludingto the insurrection of Vindex, andthus implying that the em
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