. 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. d by theRomans ; and this would account forthe prodigious value set upon them. MURUS (re?xos). A wall of stoneor brick, built as a defence and forti-fication round a town, in contradis-tinction to paries, the wall of a house,or any other edifice. (Cic. N. D. Id. Off. i. 11. Cses. B. G. ii. 12.)Town wa
. 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. d by theRomans ; and this would account forthe prodigious value set upon them. MURUS (re?xos). A wall of stoneor brick, built as a defence and forti-fication round a town, in contradis-tinction to paries, the wall of a house,or any other edifice. (Cic. N. D. Id. Off. i. 11. Cses. B. G. ii. 12.)Town walls were usually constructedwith square or round towers (turves)at certain intervals, a fortified gate(porta) at every point from whichany of the great roads emanated;sometimes with a trench (fossa) onthe outside, having a mound (agger)within it, upon which the ramparts(loricce, propugnacula) were raised,surmounted by turrets (pinnce) toshield the defenders. 2. Murus crinalis. A crown orornament for the hair,made in imitation ofthe walls of a town,with its towers andfortifications, attri-buted by poets andartists to the goddessCybele, to typify thecities of the earth overwhich she was pre-sumed to reign ; as in the annexedexample from a marble , in Eutrop. ii. MUSCARIUM ((t66t{). A fly-flap for driving away flies, or whiskfor dusting any thing; made of thelong peacocks feathers (Mart, ), or the tuft at the end of a cowstail (Id. xiv. 71.) ; whence the wordis also used for a horses tail. , vi. 2. 2. 2. A case or closet in which papers,tablets, &c, were placed to preservethem from fly stains (Inscript, , Viagg. a Pompei, p. 168.)The modern Italians retain the sameelements with a similar meaning intheir word mosca-juola, which signi-fies a cupboard or safe where eatables •are put by. MUSCARIUS. See Clavus A contrivanceemployed in sieges for coveringand protecting the men from theenemys missiles whilst engaged inthrowing
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