. 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. t the former was the one mostlyused for the senate house. Yarro,L. L. v. 155. Td. vi. 46. Beneckead Cic. Cat. iv. 1. 2. CURIO. The priest of a corpo-rate body {curia), who was appointedto perform the rites of religion on jbehalf of the corporation. (Varro, IL. L. v. 83.) Each of the thirty jRoman curice had o
. 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. t the former was the one mostlyused for the senate house. Yarro,L. L. v. 155. Td. vi. 46. Beneckead Cic. Cat. iv. 1. 2. CURIO. The priest of a corpo-rate body {curia), who was appointedto perform the rites of religion on jbehalf of the corporation. (Varro, IL. L. v. 83.) Each of the thirty jRoman curice had one curio, who jacted as the chief of his own corpo- jration; but from these one was ap- |pointed as president over the whole,with the title of Curio ap. Fest. s. Maximus. 8. 2. A public crier. Mart. ii. Trebell. Gallien. 12. CURIS. A Sabine word for aspear. Ovid. Fast. ii. 477. Hasta. CURRICULUM. Diminutive ofCurrus. Cic Har. resp. 10. 19. Ovid. Trist. iv. 8. 36. 2. The course or space run overby each chariot at a race in the Greek ;Hippodrome, or Roman Circus. i. 1. 3. Plaut. Trin. iv. 4. 11. CURRUS. A Roman chariot, orcarriage upon two wheels, which wasentered from behind, but was close in !front, and open overhead. It was. also constructed to contain two per-sons, the driver and another, bothstanding, and was drawn by two,three, or four horses, and occasion-ally even by a greater number. (Cic. Ovid, Virg. &c.) The example isfrom an original now preserved inthe Vatican, made of wood, butcovered with plates of bronze. Whenfound, it was broken into manypieces, which have since been puttogether. A front view of the sameis given at p. 72. 2. (ap/xa). The war chariot usedby the Greeks of the heroic ages;which was of a similar constructionto the one last mentioned, but of a
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