. 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. fromI its frequent occurrence in works ofart representing the ceremonials ofBacchus and Cybele, that it, and notthe drum, is intended when the termis used with reference to the wor-ship of those deities. 2. The same word is supposed toI have likewise designated an instru-I ment like our kettle-drum, with onei
. 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. fromI its frequent occurrence in works ofart representing the ceremonials ofBacchus and Cybele, that it, and notthe drum, is intended when the termis used with reference to the wor-ship of those deities. 2. The same word is supposed toI have likewise designated an instru-I ment like our kettle-drum, with onei flat surface of skin strained over aI metal basing, because a pearl, with one surface flat and the other round,was designated by a diminutive formof the same word, tympanium; andApollodorus (Bibl. i. 9. 7.) describesa contrivance employed by Salmoneusto produce a loud noise, like thunder,which closely resembles the kettle-drum, being formed by a copperkettle (lebes), with a skin strainedover its rims. If such a notion becorrect, it is probably this instrumentwhich Justin intends to particularize(xli. 2.), as employed by the Par-thians to give the signal of battle; forthey also employed the long drum(symphonia) upon similar Crass. 23. 3. A wheel made of solid wood. without spokes (radii), such as wasused for wagons (plaustra), as ex-hibited by the annexed example,from a Roman bas-relief. ii. 444. 4. Tympanum dentatum. A wheelof the same description, with teeth TYMPANUM. 705 or cogs round its edges. 5. 5. A tread-wheel for raising heavyweights, worked by human labour.(Lucret. iv. 907.) The illustrationis from a marble preserved at Capua,with an inscription commemoratingthe building or repairing the theatreof the ancient city. It represents themethod adopted by the Roman archi-tects for raising a column. The headof the shaft is encased in ropes,
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