. 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. acteristically displayed. 4. A wine bin, constructed withrows of shelves rising one over theother, like the seats of a theatre, andupon which the wine was depositedto ripen, after it had been drawn offfrom the bulk into amphorce, or, aswe should say, bottled. Cato, JR. 3. 2. Pontedera, Curce Posth. ad I
. 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. acteristically displayed. 4. A wine bin, constructed withrows of shelves rising one over theother, like the seats of a theatre, andupon which the wine was depositedto ripen, after it had been drawn offfrom the bulk into amphorce, or, aswe should say, bottled. Cato, JR. 3. 2. Pontedera, Curce Posth. ad I. 5. A body of soldiers drawn upin the shape of a wedge. 47. Veg. Mil. iii. 19. CUNICULARII. Sappers andminers; or soldiers who effect anentrance into a town from a mine(cuniculus). Veg. Mil. ii. 11. Am-mian. xxiv. 4. 22. CUNICULATORES. Same asthe preceding. Luctat. in Stat. 418. CUNICULUS (brov6fws). Any subterranean passage, hut more espe-cially a mine in military i, 6. Liv. v. 21. 4. 21. CUNUL,£. Diminutive of Cu-nje ; a small or common sort ofcradle. Prudent. Cathem. vii. xi. 98. CUPA {yavXos). A cask, orbutt; made with wooden staves (ta-bulce. Pallad. i. 38. 1.), and houndround with iron hoops (circuit, Sat 60. 3. Plin. H. N. xiv. 27.), inwhich wine, vinegar, and other arti-cles were kept and transported fromplace to place ; whence vinum de cupa(Cic Pis. 27.) is equivalent to ourexpression out of the wood. Theexample is copied from the Columnof Trajan. 2. (kwttt/). An oolong block ofwood, forming one of the componentparts in a trapetum, or machine forbruising olives. It was made of elmor beech, and perforated through itscentre, in order to be slipped on to a
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