. 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. facsimile, upon a reduced scale, of analbum written against one of thehouses in Pompeii, which appears tohave been equivalent to a modernannouncement, such as : Patron-ized by the Royal Family, or Byappointment. The words of itare marcum . cerrinium . vatiam . AEDILEM . ORAT . UT . FAVEAT .SCRIBA . ISSUS . DI
. 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. facsimile, upon a reduced scale, of analbum written against one of thehouses in Pompeii, which appears tohave been equivalent to a modernannouncement, such as : Patron-ized by the Royal Family, or Byappointment. The words of itare marcum . cerrinium . vatiam . AEDILEM . ORAT . UT . FAVEAT .SCRIBA . ISSUS . DIGNUS . EST. Issus, the scribe, solicits the pa-tronage of M. Cerrinius Vatia, thesedile ; he is a fit person. ALEXANDRINUM OPUS. Aparticular kind of mosaic work, ALICULA. ALIPTES. 21 especially used for the flooring ofrooms, and belonging to the class ofpavements termed sectilia, the dis-tinctive character of which consistedin this, that the frets or patternsforming the designs, were composed bythe conjunction of only two colours,red and black for instance, on a whiteground, as in the example, which re-presents a portion of a pavement in ahouse at Pompeii. (Lamprid. 25.) The words of Lampridiusseem to imply that this description ofmosaic was first introduced by Seve-. rus; but such a notion is rendereduntenable by the numerous specimensof it in the Pompeian houses. Wemust, therefore, understand thatSeverus merely introduced the cus-tom of forming such pavements bythe contrast of two sorts of marbledifferent in colour and quality fromthose which had been previously em-ployed for the purpose, viz. porphyryand Lacedaemonian marble. ALICULA. A short cloak ormantle resembling the chlamys inform, but of smaller dimensions,fastened by a brooch in front, and
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