. 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. m the temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome. CANCELLARIUS. A wordintroduced at a late period of theempire, and applied either to anofficer who kept guard before theemperors tent, or his sleeping apart-ment, the approach to which wasclosed by gratings (cancelli), as welearn from Cassiodorus (Var. Ep. ), whenc
. 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. m the temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome. CANCELLARIUS. A wordintroduced at a late period of theempire, and applied either to anofficer who kept guard before theemperors tent, or his sleeping apart-ment, the approach to which wasclosed by gratings (cancelli), as welearn from Cassiodorus (Var. Ep. ), whence the appellation : or to asort of chief clerk presiding over abody of juniors who assisted thejudges in a court of law, the tribunesof which, where the judges and theirofficers sat, were in like mannerseparated from the body of the courtby an iron railing. Hence we derive CANDELA. our term of chancellor. 16. Cassiodor. CANCELLI (/cryAfr, SplxpaKTov),Iron gratings and trellis work; in-tended as an ornamental fence toenclose or protect anything (Varro,R. R. iii. 5. 4. Columell. viii. 1. 6.) ;for instance, before the judges tribunein a court of law; in front of therostrum in the forum (Cic. ), which by some writers is re-cognized in the annexed scene, from. the arch of Constantine; along thetop of the podium, and each distincttier of seats in an amphitheatre ( iii. 2. 64.), as shown in therestored section of the amphitheatreof Pola (p. 29. a) ; and in short forany situation requiring such anobject. CANDELA. A candle made ofpitch, wax, or tallow, with the pithof a bull-rush for the wick ( N. xvi. 70.), which was used inearly times before the invention ofthe oil lamp. Mart. Ep. xiv. 43. 2. A sort of torch, made of thefibres of the papyrus twisted togetherlike a rope, or of a rope itself coatedwith wax (Serv. ad Virg. ^En. Varro, v. 119.), whichwas anciently carried in funeral pro-cessions ; and is represented in theillustration,
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