. 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. s of the bow and name points to a weapon in thenature of the modern cross-bow; butit is impossible to define it precisely,as the exact character of the Bal-lista is not sufficiently Mil ii. 15. ARCUBALLISTARIUS. Onewho manages the Arcuballista. Ve-get. Mil iv. 21. ARCULA (kiSAtl
. 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. s of the bow and name points to a weapon in thenature of the modern cross-bow; butit is impossible to define it precisely,as the exact character of the Bal-lista is not sufficiently Mil ii. 15. ARCUBALLISTARIUS. Onewho manages the Arcuballista. Ve-get. Mil iv. 21. ARCULA (kiSAtlov). Diminutiveof Arca, in its general senses; butalso specially applied as follows : — 1. A painters colour box, dividedinto a number of separate compart-ments ; more espe-cially used by en- ^^fgg^^P^^caustic painters, in ^Ss> <^-^jfj|which they kept If —^nflHdistinct the diffe- *-— rent coloured waxes used in theirart. (Varro, R. R. iii. 17. 4.) Theillustration is from a Roman bas-relief, which represents Painting in-ducing M. Varro to illustrate hisbook with portraits. 2. A small sepulchre or stonecoffin, such as was used by the Chris-tianized Romans, and deposited intheir catacombs, when the bodieswere buried, without being burnt.(Inscript. ap. Grut. (1031. 4.) The. illustration represents one of thesecoffins in the catacombs at Rome, aportion only being removed in thedrawing to show the skeleton. ARCULARIUS. A maker ofarculce, caskets, little boxes, jewelcases, &c. Plaut. Aul iii. 5. 45. ARCULUM. A chaplet madefrom the branch of the pomegranatetree bent into a circle, and fastenedat the ends by a fillet of white wool,which was worn by the FlaminicaDialis at all sacrifices, and on certainoccasions likewise by the wife of theRex sacrificulus. Serv. ad Virg. 137. 2. Or Arculus. A porters knot;especially the linen cloth rolled upand twisted into a circle which theyoung women placed on the topof their heads in the same way asis still practised by the Italian
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