. 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. nical surface of thelower stone, receiving the pivot justmentioned into a socket incavatedfor the purpose in the centre of thenarrowest part, between the two hol-low cones, whicn served the doublepurpose of keeping it fixed in itsposition, and of diminishing or equal-izing the friction. The corn wasthen poure
. 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. nical surface of thelower stone, receiving the pivot justmentioned into a socket incavatedfor the purpose in the centre of thenarrowest part, between the two hol-low cones, whicn served the doublepurpose of keeping it fixed in itsposition, and of diminishing or equal-izing the friction. The corn wasthen poured into the hollow cup atthe top, which thus served as a hop-per, and descended gradually throughfour holes pierced in its bottom onto the solid cone below ; where itwas ground into flour between theouter and inner surface of the coneand its cap, as the latter was turnedround and round by the slaves whodrove it, with the aid of a woodenbar inserted in each of its sides, forwhich the square socket is shown inthe cut. The flour then fell out fromthe bottom all round into a chan-nel cut round the base to receive it. 2. Mola asinaria, or mill of the same construction anduse, but worked by cattle instead ofmen, as shown by the annexed ex-ample, from a marble in the (Cato, xi. 4. Ov. Fast. vi. Met. vii. p. 143.) It will be perceived that the animal is blind-folded, as stated by Apuleius {, p. 184.). 3. Mola aquaria. A mill forgrinding flour, driven by water in-stead of men or cattle. (Vitruv. Pallad. R. R. 1. 42. Auson. Mo-sell. 362.) The millstones weresimilar to those represented in thetwo preceding woodcuts; but theouter one was turned round bymeans of a wheel {rota aquaria), fur-nished with float boards, and havinga cog wheel (tympanum dentatum)affixed to the opposite extremity ofits axis, the cogs of which fitted intothose of another wheel placed ver-tically over it, so that as the waterwheel revolved, it communicated arotatory mot
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