. 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. , made of bean meal andrice worked up together, which theRoman ladies applied to their facesfor the purpose of taking out wrin-kles, and giving a clear tint andsmoothness to the skin. Mart. Compare Pallad. xi. 14. 9. LONGURIUS. A very longstraight pole, employed for makingdivisions or fences in a mead
. 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. , made of bean meal andrice worked up together, which theRoman ladies applied to their facesfor the purpose of taking out wrin-kles, and giving a clear tint andsmoothness to the skin. Mart. Compare Pallad. xi. 14. 9. LONGURIUS. A very longstraight pole, employed for makingdivisions or fences in a meadow(Varro, B. B. i. 14. 2.) ; as a swing-ing bar for separating the horses in astable, which the ancients did notdivide into stalls (Varro, B. B. ii. ); as a handle for the falx mura-lis (Cses. B. iii. 14.) ; or, indeed, forany purpose to which such an objectwas adapted. LORA. See LurauLORARIUS. A slave who in-flicted the punishment ofupon his fellowslaves withtwisted ropesor thongs ofleather, at thecommand of hismaster. A cha-racter of thiskind was fre-quently intro-duced upon theRoman comicstage (Gell. 8. Act. 2.), and isexhibited in theillustration an-nexed, from a marble bas-relief, re-presenting a scene from some entire composition contains. three more figures, a young girlplaying the double pipes, and two oldmen, one of whom, the master of theslave, is about to chastise him in a fitof anger with his stick, but is heldback by his friend; whilst the slave,in flying from his master, falls intothe hands of the Jorarius, who is re-presented with a twisted thong in hisraised arm, with which he is about topunish his crouching comrade. LORFCA (bPa£). The termused generally to designate a piece ofdefensive armour, which covered thebreast, back, belly, and sides as faras the waist; including the cuirassor corselet of leather or metal, plain,scaled, laminated, ringed, and quilted;the coat of mail; and the loose doub-let, or flexible linen shirt ;
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