. 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. and curtains by which it might beclosed in front (Prop. iv. 8. x. p. 224.); capable ofcontaining two or three persons,usually drawn by a pair of mules(Lamprid. Heliog. 4.), and used bythe Roman matrons and ladies of dis-tinction from remote antiquity. ( i. 619. Liv. v. 25.) The illus-tra
. 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. and curtains by which it might beclosed in front (Prop. iv. 8. x. p. 224.); capable ofcontaining two or three persons,usually drawn by a pair of mules(Lamprid. Heliog. 4.), and used bythe Roman matrons and ladies of dis-tinction from remote antiquity. ( i. 619. Liv. v. 25.) The illus-tration, which belongs to the earliesttimes is copied from an Etruscanpainting (Micali, Italia avanti i JRo-mani, tav. 27.), and represents a brideand bridegroom, or a married pair,as Livy describes Lucumo and hiswife on their arrival at Rome (sedenscarpento cum uxore. Liv. i. 34.). 2. Carpentum funebre, or pompa-ticum. A state carpentum or carriage,in which the urn containing the ashesof the great, or their statues, were. carried in the funeral procession.(Suet. Col. 15. Id. Claud. 11. Isidor. Orig. xx. 12. 3.) These were like-wise covered carriages, constructedupon the same principle as the pre-ceding, but more showy and imposingin character ; as may be seen by theexample, from a medal struck incommemoration of one of the Romanempresses, its use being further im-plied by the form, which, it will beobserved, is made in imitation of atomb. 3. A cart employed for agricul-tural purposes, and apparently ofvery common and general use ; forthe same word is frequently appliedin the sense of a cart-load, as of duog,&c, to indicate a certain quantity,which every one would immediatelyrecognise, as in the English phrase,a load. (Pallad. x. 1. Med. iv. 3. Prcef.) It wasprobably built like the first of thetwo specimens, but of coarser work-manship, and without the awning. C ARPTOR. The carver; a slavewhose duty it was to carve the dishesat grand entertainments before theywere handed
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