. 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. survived; but the object itself is ofvery common occurrence on the tri-umphal arches and columns. It ap-pears to have constituted the ordinaryarmour of the common legionarysoldier under the empire ; for it isnever worn by the superior officers,but always by the gregarians, whoserank is understood from the dut
. 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. survived; but the object itself is ofvery common occurrence on the tri-umphal arches and columns. It ap-pears to have constituted the ordinaryarmour of the common legionarysoldier under the empire ; for it isnever worn by the superior officers,but always by the gregarians, whoserank is understood from the dutiesthey perform when not engaged withthe enemy; such as felling timberfor stockades, building forts, trans-porting provisions, &c. Some writershave recognised this as the cuirass ofserpents scales (QoX&ootos. No. 4.),to which it does not possess sufficientresemblance. 8. (&copa£ aXvaidwros). A shirt ofchain mail, formed by a regular seriesof links, connected together into acontinuous chain (aXvais ; molli loricacatena, Val. Flacc. vi. 233.). It wasworn by the hastati under the repub-lic (Polyb. vi. 23.) ; and is repre-sented on some of the cavalry sol- LORICA. LORUM. 393 diers in the slabs which were re-moved from the .Arch of Trajan to. decorate the one built by Constantinenear the Coliseum, as well as on theannexed figure, from the column ofAntoninus ; in which the minutenessof the touches, as well as the closeand elastic fit of the shirt, are evi-dently intended to characterize a coatof chain mail. 9. Lorica lintea (&wpa£ AiVeos). Aloose jacket of linen, several foldsthick, steeped in vinegar and salt (Nicet. Cho- %]M*>JVniat. Script n^^/JBfc^SByzant. p. 247. Paris. 1647.); /JRmore especially fyjworn by the /Jr /^S^WOriental nations, £g /^^^W^ Jnbut also adopted by the Greeks and Romans (Nepos,Iphicr. 1. Suet. Galb. 19. Liv. iv. Tactip. 14.). It is frequentlyrepresented on the columns of Trajanand Antonine, similar to the annexedexample, as a long doublet, r
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