. 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. the passage cited, places them on thelegs of Fortunata above her shoes,it is to ridicule the vulgar ostenta-tion of wealth in the wife of theparvenu by the adoption of an unusualcustom. COMTITUM. A place wheretwo or more roads meet; more espe-. cially with reference to the country(Virg. Georg. ii. 382.), in c
. 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. the passage cited, places them on thelegs of Fortunata above her shoes,it is to ridicule the vulgar ostenta-tion of wealth in the wife of theparvenu by the adoption of an unusualcustom. COMTITUM. A place wheretwo or more roads meet; more espe-. cially with reference to the country(Virg. Georg. ii. 382.), in contradis-tinction from trivium, which appliesmore to the streets of a town. ( i. 3.) It was customary toerect altars, shrines, and small templeson these spots, at which religiousrites in honour of the Lares Compi-tales, the deities who presided overcross-roads, were performed by thecountry people (Prop. iv. 3. 54.) ;whence the word compitum is some-times used for a shrine erected onsuch a spot. (Grat. Cyneg. 483. 28.) All these particulars areelucidated by the illustration, from alandscape painting at Pompeii. COMPLUVIUM. A largesquare opening in the centre of the
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