. 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 play, was his own; it mightsurely have been his masters ; andthe one in our engraving is on theright hand of a female in a bronzestatue discovered at are, however, two statues inthe Vatican (Visconti, Mus. PioClem. iii. 28. and 29.), both repre-senting comic actors (one of themcertainly
. 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 play, was his own; it mightsurely have been his masters ; andthe one in our engraving is on theright hand of a female in a bronzestatue discovered at are, however, two statues inthe Vatican (Visconti, Mus. PioClem. iii. 28. and 29.), both repre-senting comic actors (one of themcertainly a slave), who wear similarrings on the same joint of the fore-finger, but on the left hand. CONDITPVUM. Seneca, Same as CONDITORIUM. An under-ground vault or burying-place (de-scendit in conditorium. Pet. Sat. ), in which a corpse was depositedin a coffin, without being reduced toashes (Plin. vii. 16.); a practiceprevalent amongst the Romans at thetwo extreme periods of their history,before the custom of burning had ob-tained, and after it had been relin-quished. This is the strict meaningof the word, though it also occurs ina more general sense for a monumenterected above ground (Plin. Ep. 5.) ; and in which cinerary urnswere also placed. The illustration. represents the section and plan of asepulchral chamber, excavated in therock which forms the base of theAventine hill, at a depth of forty feetbelow the surface ; the centre shaftformed a staircase for descending into the sepulchre, which is a circularchamber, having an external corridorall round it, as shown by the ground-plan in miniature at the left hand ofthe upper part of the engraving. Italso contains niches for cineraryurns, which may have been made ata subsequent period. 2. (Xapva£). The chest or coffin inwhich the dead body was encased,when placed in the vault. (Suet.
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