. 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. ( Varro, L. L. v. 123. Id. De Vit. ap. Non. p. 547. Plaut. h 2 604 sinus. i. 1. 82.), or milk (Virg. Eel. vii. 33.);like the annexed example, which re-presents Ulysses presenting a bowl ofwine to Polyphemus, in a bas-reliefof the Villa Pamfili. The fabled sizeof the Sicilian monster is thus ap
. 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. ( Varro, L. L. v. 123. Id. De Vit. ap. Non. p. 547. Plaut. h 2 604 sinus. i. 1. 82.), or milk (Virg. Eel. vii. 33.);like the annexed example, which re-presents Ulysses presenting a bowl ofwine to Polyphemus, in a bas-reliefof the Villa Pamfili. The fabled sizeof the Sicilian monster is thus appro-priately expressed by the great capa-city of the vessel containing thepotation proffered to him. SINUS (koAttos). Literally, anysurface bent into a semicircular orhollow form, whence the followingexpressive senses: — 1. A semicircular fold in a looseoutside garment, produced by catchingup one of its sides and throwing theend over the opposite shoulder, inthe manner described g. Anabolium;thus contradistinguished from gre-mium, a lap formed by holding upthe lower portion of the dress, andfrom ruga, a small irregular crease,arising from the constraint of agirdle (cingulum). The ordinary sinuswas formed immediately across the. breast, so as to make but a shortbelly, thence termed sinus brevis(Quint, xi. 3. 137.), as in the left-hand figure of the annexed wood-cut,from a statue at Venice ; whence theword is frequently used to designatethat part of the human person.(Phsedr. v. 5. 16. Terent. Heaut. 2. Tac. Hist. iii. 10.) But it mightbe lengthened out to a much lowersweep by dropping the right handand arm, and drawing the end downwith it from the shoulder, as Caesar SIPARIUM. i is represented to have done whenj about to fall beneath the strokes of his| assassins,—simul sinistra manu sinumad ima crura deduxit (Suet. Cces. 82.);it was then termed sinus laxus ( Sat. ii. 3. 172.), because it made along and loose belly, in the mannerrepresented by the part marked 2. o
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