. 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. for agricul-tural purposes, and apparently ofvery common and general use ; forthe same word is frequently appliedin the sense of a cart-load, as of duog,&c, to indicate a certain quantity,which every one would immediatelyrecognise, as in the English phrase,a load. (Pallad. x. 1. Med. iv. 3. Prcef.)
. 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. for agricul-tural purposes, and apparently ofvery common and general use ; forthe same word is frequently appliedin the sense of a cart-load, as of duog,&c, to indicate a certain quantity,which every one would immediatelyrecognise, as in the English phrase,a load. (Pallad. x. 1. Med. iv. 3. Prcef.) It wasprobably built like the first of thetwo specimens, but of coarser work-manship, and without the awning. C ARPTOR. The carver; a slavewhose duty it was to carve the dishesat grand entertainments before theywere handed round to the guests,Juv. Sat. ix. 110. CARRAGO. A species of forti-fication adopted by many of the bar-barous nations with whom the Romanscame into collision. It was effectedby drawing up their waggons andwar-chariots into a circle round thepositions which they occupied. xxxi. 7. 7. Trebell. Veget. Mil. iii. 10. CARROBALLISTA. A ballistamounted upon a carriage, and drawnby horses or mules for the conve-nience of transport from place to. place, or to different points in thescene of action. (Veget. Mil iii. CARRUCA. CARTIBULUM, 123 24. Id. ii. 25.) The illustration re-presents an engine of this description,as it is expressed on the Column ofAntonine ; but it is too imperfect inpoint of detail, to giye an adequateidea of the constructive principle uponwhich such machines acted. CARRUCA or particular kind of carriage intro-duced at Rome under the Empire(at least mention of it first occursin Plinv, and it subsequently becomescommon in Suetonius, Martial, andothers). Its precise form and cha-racter is a matter of mere conjecture;but it is clearly distinguished fromthe covinus and essedum by Mar-tial (Ep. xii. 24.), and from therheda
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