. 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. formers accompanied themselves bytheir own music and singing ( xx. 3.), as in the annexed illus-tration, from a fictile vase of Italo-Greek workmanship, which is be-lieved to afford a representation ofthe dance in question. In the origi-nal the open mouth and expression ofthe female figure, both of w
. 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. formers accompanied themselves bytheir own music and singing ( xx. 3.), as in the annexed illus-tration, from a fictile vase of Italo-Greek workmanship, which is be-lieved to afford a representation ofthe dance in question. In the origi-nal the open mouth and expression ofthe female figure, both of which arelost in our wood-cut from the minutescale of the drawing, clearly indicatethat she is singing. The very pecu-liar poses and gestures of the per-formers are, moreover, worthy ofattention, because they express theexact attitudes and steps of the mo-dern Neapolitan tarantella, which maybe consequently regarded as a relicof this old classic dance. SICINNIUM ((tikivvis). The Si*cinnis; a Greek Satyric dance, de-scribed and illustrated in the pre-ceding article. Gell. xx. 3. SIGILLATUS. Ornamentedwith small figures in relief (sigilla);like the embossed ornaments on avase (Cic. Verr. ii. 4. 14.), or carveddevices on a well cover. Id. Att. Puteal, 1. SIGILLUM. A small statue
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