. 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. nexed, from a bas-relief; or affixedto the sides, like the one on theright, from a painting at Pompeii. CORNU, CORNUS, or CORNUM(/cepas), originally, an animals horn;whence specially applied to variousother objects, either because theywere made of horn, or resembledone in form ; for instance : 1. A horn lante
. 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. nexed, from a bas-relief; or affixedto the sides, like the one on theright, from a painting at Pompeii. CORNU, CORNUS, or CORNUM(/cepas), originally, an animals horn;whence specially applied to variousother objects, either because theywere made of horn, or resembledone in form ; for instance : 1. A horn lantern. Plaut Amph. i. 1. 188. See Laterna. 2. An oil cruet, either made ofhorn, or out of a horn. Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 61. 3. A funnel made out of a horn.(Virg. Georg. iii. 509.) See Infun- DIBULUM. P D 2 204 CORNU. CORNU 4. A drinking-horn (Calpurn. Eelx. 48. Plin. H. N. xi. 45.), origi-nally made out ofa simple horn,but subsequentlyof different me-tals modelled in-to that form. When drinking, j^—* >7 the horn was ^held above the head, and the liquor permitted toflow from it into the mouth througha small orifice at the sharp end, asshown by the illustration, from apainting at Pompeii. 5. An ornamental part of the hel-met. (Liv. xxvii. 33. Virg. 89.) See Corniculum. 6. (crdXiny^ (TTpoyyvXi)). A verylarge trumpet; originally made ofhorn, but subsequently of bronze(Varro, L. L. v. 117. Ovid. Met ), with a cross-bar, which served
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