. 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. smaller, lighter, and shorter than theregular walking-stick or staff (bacu-lum), as exemplified hy the annexedexample, from a Pompeian paintingrepresenting Ulysses. 3. A stick which the lictor carriedin his right hand for the purpose of. knocking at the doors of the houseswhere the magistrate visited. (Liv,vi
. 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. smaller, lighter, and shorter than theregular walking-stick or staff (bacu-lum), as exemplified hy the annexedexample, from a Pompeian paintingrepresenting Ulysses. 3. A stick which the lictor carriedin his right hand for the purpose of. knocking at the doors of the houseswhere the magistrate visited. (Liv,vi. 34. Compare Mart. viii. 66.)The example is from a sepulchralhas-relief. 4. A wand, carried as a mark ofdistinction hy persons of consequence,such as poets or the principal actorsin a play; or hy those in authority,such as the master or overseer of ahand of workmen, who in works ofart is always distinguished from hismen by this badge ; or the trainer ofa band of gladiators, always distin-
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