. 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. t tomake a direct communication betweenthe Palatine and Capitoline Cal. 22. Xen. Anab. vi. 5. 22. PONTICULUS. Diminutive ofPons. Cic. Tusc. v. 10. PONTIFEX (yecpvponoios). Apontiff; that is, a member of theprincipal order of Roman priests, towhom the superintendence of thestate religion and its ce
. 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. t tomake a direct communication betweenthe Palatine and Capitoline Cal. 22. Xen. Anab. vi. 5. 22. PONTICULUS. Diminutive ofPons. Cic. Tusc. v. 10. PONTIFEX (yecpvponoios). Apontiff; that is, a member of theprincipal order of Roman priests, towhom the superintendence of thestate religion and its ceremonies wasentrusted. The head of the orderwas styled chief pontiff (PontifexMaximus, Upocbavrns). On coins andmarbles the pontiffs are distinguishedby the following implements of wor-ship, placed as symbols by theirsides: —the simpidum, securis, apex,and an aspersoir, or whisk forsprinkling the lustral water, desig-nated aspergillum by modern writers ;but the real Latin name of which hasnot come down to us. The chiefpontiff is in most instances accom-panied with the adjunct of a simpidumonly; though sometimes a securis ora secespita is added. PONTO. A large flat-bottomedcraft, more especially employed bythe Gauls (Cses. B. C. iii. 29.), andintended for the transport of passen-.
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