. 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. only two, of each of which a portion,containing three cunei, is shown bythe engraving; sufficient, however,to elucidate the object, for it will be readily understood that each mcenia-num comprised an entire circuit. MAGALIA and words, designating inthe language of that country the cot-tag
. 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. only two, of each of which a portion,containing three cunei, is shown bythe engraving; sufficient, however,to elucidate the object, for it will be readily understood that each mcenia-num comprised an entire circuit. MAGALIA and words, designating inthe language of that country the cot-tages of the rural population ( Virg. Mn. i. 420. iv. 259.);which were slight huts made of reedsor cane (Sil. Ital. xvii. 88—89.);sometimes of a circular and conicalform, like an oven (Cato, Orig. I. c. Hieron. in prol. Amos);or at others of an oblong shape, withbulging sides, like the hull of a vessel(Sallust, Jug. 211), both of whichmodels were also of common occur-rence in other countries. The Ro-mans described them by the wordsO&sm and Casul^, where see theillustrations ; and the example here. introduced represents a German vil-lage of similar huts from the Columnof Antoninus. Some scholars makea distinction between magalia andmapalia; thinking that the first wordwas used to designate the stationaryhuts of a village, the latter when theywere placed upon carriages, andmovable from place to place (Heynead Virg. Mn. i. 421.); at all events,the first syllable of magalia is long,in mapalia short. MAGIDA and MAGTS. Alarge sort of dish used at table; butof which nothing precise is , L. L. v. 120. Plin. H. 52. MAGISTER. A word very ge-nerally applied to any person whohas a command or authority as thechief over a number of others ; e. populi, the dictator ( iii. 22.) ; magister equitum, theofficer who commanded the cavalry MAGISTER. MAGISTRATES. 403 under the dictator (Liv. iii. 27.) ;magister morum, the censor ( iii. 13
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