. 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. ulae aucupatoriae,which is received by Doering, Orelli,and the commentators generally. Butit is not probable that the Romans AMICTUS. AMPHIPROSTYLOS. 27 would have invented three differentwords to express one and the samething; nor is it easy to conceive howbirds could be caught by nets erectedupon poles, whi
. 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. ulae aucupatoriae,which is received by Doering, Orelli,and the commentators generally. Butit is not probable that the Romans AMICTUS. AMPHIPROSTYLOS. 27 would have invented three differentwords to express one and the samething; nor is it easy to conceive howbirds could be caught by nets erectedupon poles, which they could so easilyfly over ; and the general analogy ofthe word, by a comparison with itsother meanings, should not be neg-lected, both of which apply to polesplaced in a horizontal and parallel po-sition, as distinct from those whichare set upright, or stuck in the ground. AMICTUS. A general term ex-pressive of all the various articles ofouter clothing, which were in factwrapped round the person (fromamicire), as distinguished from thoseof the inner apparel, which weredrawn on (from induere) ; including,therefore, the Toga, Pallium, Sagum,Abolla, Paludamentum, &c. ( v. 421. Quint, xi. 3. 137. Com-pare Indutus.) The two figureshere represented, both from Etruscan. works, will explain distinctly what ismeant by the term. The one stand-ing is just beginning to put on hisamictus, a loose piece of cloth, one sideof which is already passed from be-hind over the left arm and shoulder,whilst he is in the act of slipping hisright elbow under the other side, inorder to pull it up to the neck, so thatboth the ends will depend in front ofthe person in the manner representedby the left-hand figure, in the illus-tration to Anabolium. He will thentake up the right side, draw it acrossthe chest, and turn the end over hisleft shoulder, so as completely to en- velope the upper part of the body inthe manner seen on the sitting figure,who is then amictus pallio. Cic. deOrat. iii. 32
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