A dictionary of Greek and Roman . (alsocalled lectica funebris, lecticula, lectus funebris,feretrum or capulum), in which the dead were car-ried to the grave, seems to have been used amongthe Greeks and Romans from very early times. Inthe beauty and costliness of their ornaments theselecticae varied according to the rank and circum-stances of the deceased. [Funus, p. a.] Thelectica on which the body of Augustus was carriedto the grave, was made of ivory and gold, and wascovered with costly drapery worked of purple andgold. (Dion Cass. lvi. 34 ; compare Dionys. iv. 7
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . (alsocalled lectica funebris, lecticula, lectus funebris,feretrum or capulum), in which the dead were car-ried to the grave, seems to have been used amongthe Greeks and Romans from very early times. Inthe beauty and costliness of their ornaments theselecticae varied according to the rank and circum-stances of the deceased. [Funus, p. a.] Thelectica on which the body of Augustus was carriedto the grave, was made of ivory and gold, and wascovered with costly drapery worked of purple andgold. (Dion Cass. lvi. 34 ; compare Dionys. iv. 76 ; Corn. Nepos, Att. 22. § 2 ; iii. 67.) During the latter period of theempire public servants (lecticarii) were appointedfor the purpose of carrying the dead to the gravewithout any expense to the family to whom thedeceased belonged. (Novell. 43 and 59.) Repre-sentations of lecticae funebres have been found onseveral sepulchral monuments. The following wood-cut represents one taken from the tombstone ofM. Antonius Antius (Compare Lipsius, Elect, i. 19; Scheffer, De ReVeliiculari, ii. 5. p. 89 ; Gruter, Inscript. p. ; Bottiger, Sabina, vol. ii. p. 200 ; Agyafalva,Wanderungen durch Pompeii.) Lecticae for sick persons and invalids seem like-wise to have been in use in Greece and at Romefrom very early times, and their construction pro-bably differed very little from that of a lecticafunebris. (Liv. ii. 36 ; Aurel. Vict. De Vir. III. ) We also frequently read that generals intheir camps, when they had received a severewound, or when they were suffering from ill health,made use of a lectica to be carried from one placeto another. (Liv. xxiv. 42 ; Val. Max. ii. 8. § 2 ;i. 7 ; Sueton. Aug. 91.) Down to the time of the Gracchi we do not hearthat lecticae were used at Rome for any other pur-poses than those mentioned above. The Greeks,however, had long been familiar with a differentkind of lectica (kXivt] or (popeTov), which was in-troduced among them
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