. 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. s were placedin the first line of the battle array ;but subsequently they were drawn upin the second line, between the has-tati and the triarii, and they con-tinued to occupy this position untilthe latter end of the republic, whenthe custom was introduced of arrayingthe army by cohorts, which did awaywith the
. 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. s were placedin the first line of the battle array ;but subsequently they were drawn upin the second line, between the has-tati and the triarii, and they con-tinued to occupy this position untilthe latter end of the republic, whenthe custom was introduced of arrayingthe army by cohorts, which did awaywith the primitive distinctions be-tween the hastati, principes, andtriarii, and reduced them all to uni-formity in rank and viii. 8. Compare Hastati andthe illustration there given. PRINCIPMA (plural of prin-cipium). The head quarters in aRoman camp ; comprising that por-tion of it where the tents of thegeneral officers were situated, andthe space in front of them where thelegionary standards were erected,harangues addressed to the soldiery,justice administered, and the sacrificeperformed. Liv. vii. 12. Id. Tac. Hist iii. 13. and woodcut P RI S T A {irpi<rT7)p)- A sawyer(Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19. § 3). The il-lustration is from a terra-cotta vase,. of Etruscan or primitive Italianworkmanship ; which shows the useof a frame saw, and a simple methodof supporting the timber to be cut bymeans of a stand and prop, without aregular saw pit. PRISTIS. See Pistrix. PROCCETON, PRONUBA. 529 PROCCETON (TrpofcoiTctv). Anante-chamber (PIin. Ep. ii. 17. 10 and23.); a convenience adopted by theRomans, together with its name, fromthe customs and language of , R. R. ii. Proem. PROCURATOR. In a literalsense, one who acts as a proxy oragent on behalf of another; whencethe term was used as a title forthe head man or superintendent ofa Roman household, both in townand country establishments. Thoughhimself a slave, he had the entiremanagement of his maste
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