. 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. taper, made of the papyrus, or thefibres of other plants twisted togetherlike a rope (funis), and smeared withwax or pitch, as exhibited in the an-nexed woodcut, from a sepulchralmarble preserved in the church ofSt. Justina, at Padua. Isidor. 10. 5, Cic. Sen. 13. Virg.^ 731. 2. A contrivance for
. 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. taper, made of the papyrus, or thefibres of other plants twisted togetherlike a rope (funis), and smeared withwax or pitch, as exhibited in the an-nexed woodcut, from a sepulchralmarble preserved in the church ofSt. Justina, at Padua. Isidor. 10. 5, Cic. Sen. 13. Virg.^ 731. 2. A contrivance for holding torchesof this description, upon which manyof them were lit and burnt at thesame time, like our chandeliers. xx. 10. 5. Ov. Met. xii. 247. FUNALIS sc. Equus (jrap^opos,aeipacpopos). An out-rigger or trace-horse in a carriage drawn by morethan two horses. (Stat. Theb. vi. the practice in Italy, which gave riseto the term. When the carriage hadfour horses attached, there were twoout-riggers, one on each side of theyoke horses (jugales); and then theone on the right, or off horse, wascalled dexter jugalis (^^locrcipos) ; theleft hand one, or near horse, sinisteror Icevus funalis (Suet. Tib. 6. , xxv. 9.). The illustration istaken from a painting at Herculaneum. F UNAMBULUS (o-Xoivo$)s).A rope dancer. (Terent. Hecyr. 4. Compare Hor. Ep. iL 1. 210.)The illustration, which represents oneof nine figures, dancing on the tight Isidor. Orig. xviii. 35. funarius.) Thetraces were made of ropes, as is still
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