. 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. Non. s. Cupa, p. 544.), and the cupsfilled out of it, in the manner shownby the annexed illustration, from apainting at Pompeii, which representsa female pouring wine out of a skininto a cantharus held by Silenus. 3. Uterunctus. A goat-skin, greasedon the outside and inflated with air,which the rural populati
. 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. Non. s. Cupa, p. 544.), and the cupsfilled out of it, in the manner shownby the annexed illustration, from apainting at Pompeii, which representsa female pouring wine out of a skininto a cantharus held by Silenus. 3. Uterunctus. A goat-skin, greasedon the outside and inflated with air,which the rural population of Atticaused to dance or jump upon, for a. rustic sport, on the second day of thefestival of Bacchus, termed Ascolial (Ao-KuAia), as represented by theannexed illustration from an en-graved gem. Virg. Georg. ii. 384. UTRARII. Water carriers, whosupplied an army on its march withwater, which they carried in skins(Utres). Liv. xliv. 33. UTRICULA/RIUS (dtricafaris).(Suet. Nero, 54.) A bag-piper. Same UTRICULUS. VALVjE. 711 as Ascaules, under which term anillustration is given. UTRXCyULUS (djKfiiov), Dimi-nutive of Uter. Celsus, ii. 17. y. VACERRA. A post for fasteninghorses to (Festus, s. v.); whence, inthe plural, a strong fence made of up-rights and cross-bars to confine cattle ;an ox fence. Columell. vi. 19. 2. 3. ix. 1. 9. VAGPNA (tupoQ-nKv, KoXeSs). Thescabbard of a sword (Cic. Virg. ) ; usually made of different kindsof wood, box, elm, oak, ash, &c, andsometimes, perhaps, of leather, as theGreek name /coAeos (Latin culeus) seems to imply. The illustration ex-hibits an original sword found atPompeii, in its
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