A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 2. A sort of trumpet slightly curved at the ex-tremity. (Festus, s. Gell. v. 8.) It differed bothfrom the tuba and the comu (Hor. Cami. ii. 1. 17 ;Lucan, i. 237), the former being straight while thelatter w^as bent round into a spiral shape. Lydus {deMens. iv. 50) calls the lituus the sacerdotal trumpet{tepaTLK7]u adATriyya), and says that it was em-ployed by Romulus when he proclaimed the titleof his city. Aero {ad Hor at. Carm. i. 1. 23) as-serts that it was peculiar to cavalry, while thetuba belonged to infantry. Its tones are usuallychara
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 2. A sort of trumpet slightly curved at the ex-tremity. (Festus, s. Gell. v. 8.) It differed bothfrom the tuba and the comu (Hor. Cami. ii. 1. 17 ;Lucan, i. 237), the former being straight while thelatter w^as bent round into a spiral shape. Lydus {deMens. iv. 50) calls the lituus the sacerdotal trumpet{tepaTLK7]u adATriyya), and says that it was em-ployed by Romulus when he proclaimed the titleof his city. Aero {ad Hor at. Carm. i. 1. 23) as-serts that it was peculiar to cavalry, while thetuba belonged to infantry. Its tones are usuallycharacterised as harsh and shrill {stridor lituum,Lucan, i. 237 ; sonitus acutos, Ennius, apud v. ; Stat. Theb. vi. 228, &c). See Muller, DieEtrusJier, iv. 1. 5. The following representationis from Fabretti. [W. R.]. Z 2 3 710 LODIX. LOPE. LIXAE. [Calones.] LOCATI ET CONDUCTI ACTIO. [Lo- CATIO.] LOCATIO, CONDUCTIO, is one of thosecontracts which are made merely by consent, with-out the observation of any peculiar form. The con-tract might be either a locatio conductio rerum, ora locatio conductio operarum. In the locatio con-ductio rerum, he who promises the use of the thing,is locator, he who promises to give a sum of moneyfor the use is conductor : if the thing is a dwelling-house, the conductor is called inquilinus ; if it iscultivable land, he is called colonus. The locatioconductio operarum consists either in giving certainservices for a fixed price, or giving that which isthe result of labour, as an article of furniture, or ahouse. He for whom the service is done, or thething is made, is called locator: he who under-takes to produce the thing is conductor or redemp-tor. (Hor. Carm. iii. 1.) The determination of a fixed price or sum ofmoney (inerces, pensio) is an essential part of thecontrac
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