. 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. amp;v). Origi-nally signified the place where cornwas brayed into flour by means of alarge pestle and deep mortar, in themanner shown by the figure s. Pllum1. ; but after the invention of millsfor grinding (Mola), the same termwas retained to designate the mill-house (Terent. Phorm. ii. 1. 19. i. 11.)
. 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. amp;v). Origi-nally signified the place where cornwas brayed into flour by means of alarge pestle and deep mortar, in themanner shown by the figure s. Pllum1. ; but after the invention of millsfor grinding (Mola), the same termwas retained to designate the mill-house (Terent. Phorm. ii. 1. 19. i. 11.), where the mills weredriven by slaves, cattle, or water(Pallad. i. 42.); and which, in con-sequence of the laborious exertionrequired for grinding by hand, aswell as the continuousness of the toil,for they were frequently kept goingby night as well as day (Apul. p. 183.)? ^as commonly used as aplace of punishment for offendingslaves, like our workhouse, wherethey were condemned to undergo aperiod of imprisonment with hard la-bour. Plaut. passim. PISTRIS or PRISTIS, andPISTRIX or PRISTIX (iritrrpisand irpia-Tis). A sea-monster (Florus,iii. 5. 16. Plin. ix. 2.); butalways represented by the ancientartists with the same characteristicfeatures as are exhibited in the an-. nexed illustration from a painting atPompeii, viz. the head of a dragon,the neck and breast of a beast, withfins in the place of front legs, andthe tail and body of a fish (Virg. 427.); a form generally adoptedby the early Christian artists to re-present the whale which swallowedJonah. 2. The name given to a particularclass of ships of war (Liv. xxxv. xvii. 1. 1.), doubtless from acertain resemblance in general formto the above figure; perhaps fromthe bow rising very high out of the PLAGULA. | water, like the head and neck thereI portrayed. In Virgil (2En. v. 116.)I pistris is the adopted name of avessel, after the image of this mon-j ster borne on its bows as a figure-head(insigne
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