. 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. sapplied in the following sportsman first hung the cagewith his call bird on the bough of atree, under which, or at some conve-nient distance from it, he contrivedto conceal himself,and when a bird, ^^rAattracted by the (pKI ^i^\\vsinging of its com- vBm Ipanion, perched on M\/j \ y the branches, h
. 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. sapplied in the following sportsman first hung the cagewith his call bird on the bough of atree, under which, or at some conve-nient distance from it, he contrivedto conceal himself,and when a bird, ^^rAattracted by the (pKI ^i^\\vsinging of its com- vBm Ipanion, perched on M\/j \ y the branches, he »y MJ§quietly inserted (lA J,f§his rod amongst (^Sl^3^ ^the boughs, until it reached his prey, which stuck tothe lime, and was thus drawn to theground. When the tree was veryhigh, or the fowler under the neces-sity of taking up his position at adistance from it, the rod was madein separate joints, like our fishingrods, so that he could graduallylengthen it out until it reached theobject of his pursuit, whence it istermed arundo crescens or texta.(Mart. Ep. ix. 55. Id. xiv. 218. SiLItal. vii. 674—677. Pet. Sat. 109. , Id. 11. 5.) The last illustrationis from an engraved gem, and showsthe process clearly. 5. A reed-pen, for writing uponpaper or papyrus, one of which, by. the side of an inkstand, is here repre-sented from a Pompeian painting,i 2 60 ARX. AS.
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