. 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. cilla, the daughter of M. Aurelius,breaking off a branch to sprinkle theyoung children, whilst a priestessis drawing water from the river ; orwith a whisk made expressly for thepurpose, as in the annexed engraving,. also from a medal, and which theGreeks termed irepi^paur^piou orpavTiaTpov. The corresponding
. 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. cilla, the daughter of M. Aurelius,breaking off a branch to sprinkle theyoung children, whilst a priestessis drawing water from the river ; orwith a whisk made expressly for thepurpose, as in the annexed engraving,. also from a medal, and which theGreeks termed irepi^paur^piou orpavTiaTpov. The corresponding Latinterm is unknown; for the wordaspergittum, employed by modernphilologists, is not supported by anyancient authority. ASSER. In general, a smallwooden beam, pole or post fixed inor upon anything (Liv. Cses Tac.) ;whence the following more specialmeanings are deduced: — 1. The pole by which a palanquin(lectica) was carried on the shouldersof its bearers. (Suet. Cal 58. 245. Id. vii. 132. Mart. ix. 23. 9.)It was entirely separate from the con-veyance, and must not be confoundedwith the shafts (amites), which werepermanently affixed to the body of thecarriage, or at least only removeableupon occasion. The asser was passed ASSERCULUM. 63 under a thong (Jorum, struppus) at-tached to these shafts, like the back-
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