. 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. the sill and the lintel of adoor; which, however, are sometimesdistinguished by a special epithet: aslimen inferior, the sill; limen superior,the lintel. Plaut. Merc. v. 1. 1. iv. 4. 1. Vitruv. vi. 9 and 11. Seethe illustrations s. Janua. 2. Limen or limina equorum. Thethreshold or doorway of the stal
. 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. the sill and the lintel of adoor; which, however, are sometimesdistinguished by a special epithet: aslimen inferior, the sill; limen superior,the lintel. Plaut. Merc. v. 1. 1. iv. 4. 1. Vitruv. vi. 9 and 11. Seethe illustrations s. Janua. 2. Limen or limina equorum. Thethreshold or doorway of the stalls inthe Circus, from which the horses andchariots came out when they wereabout to start for a race. Virg. 316. Sil. Ital. xvi. 316. See theillustration s. Carcer, 2. L IM US. A petticoat, reach-ing from the waist tothe feet, and orna-mented with a band orstripe of purple colour,all round the bottom ofthe skirt. It was theproper costume of thePopa, who officiatedat the sacrifice, and isdistinctly shown bythe annexed example,from the Vatican Vir-gil. Virg. Mn. Servius ad Tiro. xii. 3. LFNEA. In general a thread,line, or string ; whence the followingmore special senses : — 1. (dp/jua). A fishing-line -(Mart,iii. 58. 28.) made of strong hair (seta,. LINE A. 385 Avian. Fab. xx. 1.) or flax twistedinto thread (linum, Ov. Met. xiii.
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