. 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. and two, the halves only of whichappear in the drawing, on each side. 2. When applied to horses ( 17. Suet. Cal. 19. Claud. 17.), itdesignates an or-nament of simi-lar description,sometimes af-fixed to the head-stall, or to athroat collar, asin the examplefrom a fictilevase, or to a martingale over th
. 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. and two, the halves only of whichappear in the drawing, on each side. 2. When applied to horses ( 17. Suet. Cal. 19. Claud. 17.), itdesignates an or-nament of simi-lar description,sometimes af-fixed to the head-stall, or to athroat collar, asin the examplefrom a fictilevase, or to a martingale over thechest, as in the woodcuts at p. 264.;where they hung as pendants ( xxxvii. 74. Compare Claud, Honor. 549.), shaking and shin-ing with every motion of the animal. PHARETRA (cpapirpa). Aquiver, or case for arrows only, incontradistinction to corytus, a bowcase, but which sometimes held thearrows as well as the bow. See thethree following illustrations. 2. A particular kind of sun-dial,which from its designation is sup-posed to have borne some resem-blance to a quiver ; but in the absenceof any known example representingsuch a figure, the interpretation canonly be regarded in the light of aconjecture. Vitruv. ix. 8. PHARETRATUS. Carrying aquiver (Virg. Hor. Ovid. &
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