. 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. text and wood-cut at p. 304.;but they evinced a considerabledegree of muscular streDgth and Iagility. 4. Saltatio bellicrepa. A Roman !dance of a military character, said tohave been instituted by Romulus, in icommemoration of the rape of theSabines, and as a ceremonial foraverting a similar calamity from his
. 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. text and wood-cut at p. 304.;but they evinced a considerabledegree of muscular streDgth and Iagility. 4. Saltatio bellicrepa. A Roman !dance of a military character, said tohave been instituted by Romulus, in icommemoration of the rape of theSabines, and as a ceremonial foraverting a similar calamity from hisown people. Festus, s. v. III. Mimetic dances; in which theperformers represent certain eventsand actions by mere gesticulation and imovements of the body, to a musicalaccompaniment, but without the aidof the voice, like the actors in a jmodern ballet. These exhibitionswould in our day be classed underthe name of acting in dumb show, fordancing, in our sense of the term, |had no place in it, the performanceconsisting in expressive movements !of the features, body, arms, and jhands, rather than the feet. ii. 7. Suet. Cat 57. Nero. 7. Ov. i. 595. IV. Operatic dances; in the ordinarysense of the word as applied by our- |selves ; intended as an exhibition of. grace, agility, and strength, in whichthe movements of the feet and bodyperform the essential part, withoutany direct attempt at mimetic repre-sentation, as exhibited by the an-nexed group, from a fictile performances were chiefly ex-hibited for the amusement of the guests at great banquets ; and nume-rous representations of the personswho performed in them, both maleand female, have been found amongstthe paintings of Herculaneum andPompeii, all showing the great de-gree of perfection to which the art ofmere dancing was advanced by theancient artistes. SALTA TOR {bpxW^^ ttclvtoixl-yuos). A dancer; only of mimeticdances on the stage (Saltatio III.),or of operatic dancers at banquetsand public
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