. 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. E. EBORARIUS. A carver andworker in ivory. Imp. Const. 64. 1. ECHINUS (eX^os). A hedge-hog ; and a sea-urchin, the shell ofwhich was made use of by the an-cients as a receptacle for medicineand other things ; hence the name isgiven by Horace {Sat. i. 6. 117.) toa table utensil, formed of the samemater
. 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. E. EBORARIUS. A carver andworker in ivory. Imp. Const. 64. 1. ECHINUS (eX^os). A hedge-hog ; and a sea-urchin, the shell ofwhich was made use of by the an-cients as a receptacle for medicineand other things ; hence the name isgiven by Horace {Sat. i. 6. 117.) toa table utensil, formed of the samematerial, or modelled to imitate it;but the particular use for which heintended it to be applied is not clearlyapparent. Heindorf {ad I.) says, abowl for washing the goblets in. 2. In architecture. A large ellip-tico-circular member in a Doric capital, placed imme- ? • diately under the U——— y abacus. (Vitruv. iv. =^3. 4.) In the finest 111 f 1,1specimens of the order it is either ;elliptical or hyperbolical in its out-line, but never circular ; and, with !the annulets under it is of the same jheight as the abacus. (Elmes, Lec- \tures on Architecture, p. 205.) Theexample represents a capital from theParthenon. ECTYPUS (iKTv-Kos). Formed jin a mould (tv-kos, forma\ which has. the device intended to be displayedincavated in it, so that the cast (ecty-pum) which comes from it presentsthe objects in relief, like a terra-cotta cast (Plin. xxxv. 43.), as will be readily understood by theannexed engravings. The right-handone represents an ancient mould,from an original found at Ardea, andthe left-hand one shows the terra-cotta cast with its figures in reliefwhich comes out of it. 2. Ectypa gemma, or scalptura; anengraved stone which has the imagesupon it carved in relief, like a cameo,instead of being cut into it, like aseal or intaglio. Seneca, Ben. Plin. xxxvii. 63. EDOLATUS. Shaped, and cutout of the rough with a dolabra(Columell. viii. 11. 4. and Dola-tus) ; h
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