. 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. e theletters and the tracery to the innerbody of the cup. DIATRIBA. A place in whichlearned disputations are carried on,such as a school or lecture Gell. xvii, 20. 2. Id. xviii. 13. 2. DIAZOMA (8idCa>/jLa). Properly,a Greek word Latinized (Vitruv. , 7.), for which the genuine Latinterm is Prje
. 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. e theletters and the tracery to the innerbody of the cup. DIATRIBA. A place in whichlearned disputations are carried on,such as a school or lecture Gell. xvii, 20. 2. Id. xviii. 13. 2. DIAZOMA (8idCa>/jLa). Properly,a Greek word Latinized (Vitruv. , 7.), for which the genuine Latinterm is Prjecinctio ; under which itis explained. DICHALCON (MXo\kov). Asmall copper coin of Greek currency,equal in value to the fourth or fifthof an obolus. Vitruv. iii. 1. N. xxi. 109. i i 242 DICROTUS, DIPLOIS. DICRGTUS (Mkpotos). Havingtwo banks of oars on a side ; pro-perly, a Greek word, for which theRomans used Biremis ; which see. DIDRACHMA and DIDRACH-MUM (5%axMo^)- A doubledrachm, of the Greek silver coinage.(Tertull. Prcescr. 11.) Like thedrachma, it was of two differentstandards: the Attic, of which spe-cimens are very rare, worth aboutIs. 7{d. of our money ; and the iEgi-netan, worth about 25. 3±d., thelargest coin of that standard, and byno means uncommon; one of which.
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