. 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. g chair. The ex-ample is from a Greek fictile vase,and represents one of the masterswho taught the young men theirexercises in the gymnasium (n-atSo-rpLirjs). A marble in the Capitolat Rome shows the empress Agrip- pina sitting in one of a similarcharacter. 3. Cathedra strata. A chair co-vered with a cushion,
. 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. g chair. The ex-ample is from a Greek fictile vase,and represents one of the masterswho taught the young men theirexercises in the gymnasium (n-atSo-rpLirjs). A marble in the Capitolat Rome shows the empress Agrip- pina sitting in one of a similarcharacter. 3. Cathedra strata. A chair co-vered with a cushion, as seen in thefirst engraving. Juv. I. c. 4. The chair in which philosophers,rhetoricians, &c, sat to deliver theirlectures; a p?,ofessors chair ( vii. 203. Mart. Ep. 1. 77.), ofwhich the last illustration probablyaffords the type. 5. A sedan chair (Juv. Sat. ) ; for Sella, which see. 6. More recently, the chair inwhich the bishops of the early Chris-tian Church sat during divine service(Sidon. in cone, post Epist. 9. 1. 7.) ;from which the principal church of adiocese is called the cathedral; in which the bishops chair isplaced. CATHETER (/cafler^). Pro-perly, a Greek word, for which theRomans used fistula cenea (Celsus,vii. 26. 1.) ; a catheter, or surgical. instrument employed in drawing offthe water, when suppressed, from thebladder, into which it is Aurel. Tard. ii. 1. n. 13.) Theexample is from an original, nineinches long, discovered at Pompeii. CATILLUS and small dish of the same form andcharacter as the catinus, but of lesscapacity, and possibly of inferiormanufacture. Columell. xii. 57. Max. iv. 3. 5. 2. (pvos). The upper or outer ofthe two stones in a mill for grindingcorn (Paul. Dig. 33. 7. 18. § 5.), whichserved as a hopper or bowl into whichthe corn was poured ; whence the annexed illustration represents aRoman mill now remaining at Pom-peii, with a section on the left upper part or basin is the
Size: 3016px × 829px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectclassicaldictionarie
