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. 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. ing the new duties and condition oflife she had just entered upon (Festus,s. v. Varro, ap. Serv. ad Virg. 166. Compare Catull. lxi. Stat. Sijlv. i. 2. 11.); as isgraphically shown in the illustration,from the celebrated Roman fresco,preserved in the Vatican, and knownby the name of the Aldobra
. 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. ing the new duties and condition oflife she had just entered upon (Festus,s. v. Varro, ap. Serv. ad Virg. 166. Compare Catull. lxi. Stat. Sijlv. i. 2. 11.); as isgraphically shown in the illustration,from the celebrated Roman fresco,preserved in the Vatican, and knownby the name of the Aldobrandinimarriage. The bride is the right-hand figure, still enveloped in herbridal veil (flammeum) ; the pronuba,the one on the left with a chapletround her head, and in an attitude ofpersuasion or encouragement ; bothare sitting upon the marriage The lower end of the. ; sheet (pes), attached to the clues ofa square sail; viz. that which wasfastened down to the quarters of thevessel, in order to keep the sail I stretched to the wind, as shown bythe annexed woodcut from a coin ofLepidus. Turpil. ap. Isidor. xix. Compare Herod, ii. 36. PROPLASMA (7rpo7rAao>a). Asmall rough model in clay or terracotta, which sculptors form in orderto embody their first thoughts in arapid and sketchy manner. It servesto show them the composition of theirfigures, the arrangement, grouping,and position of the limbs and acces-sories, in the different points of viewall round; and thus to regulate theform of the frame upon which thefull-sized model of the finished workis to be executed from nature. N. xxxv. 45. Cic. Att xii. 41. PROP NIGRUM (vpomiyeiov).The mouth of a furnace (irvtyevs);properly a Greek term, for which theLatin one is Pr^furnium. ii. 17. 11. Vitruv. v. 11. 2. PROPUGNACULUM. In ageneral sense is applied to any struc-ture on land from
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