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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. which they aremarked ddddd. These form theprincipal beams of the soffit in theinterior of a building; and in stoneedifices of the Doric order, their ex-tremities are represented externallyby the triglyphs; but in Ionic and Corinthian elevations, they are notaccounted for externally, being en-tirely concealed
. 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. which they aremarked ddddd. These form theprincipal beams of the soffit in theinterior of a building; and in stoneedifices of the Doric order, their ex-tremities are represented externallyby the triglyphs; but in Ionic and Corinthian elevations, they are notaccounted for externally, being en-tirely concealed by the slabs of thecontinuous frieze (zophorus) whichcovers them. TINA. A vessel in which winewas brought into the eating-room inearly times. (Varro, ap, Non. s. 544.) Nothing is known respect-ing its peculiar properties; but wemay infer that it was of considerablesize, since Varro speaks of it as a sub-stitute for the skin (uter); and No-nius associates it with the cask (cupa).The modern Italians retain the wordin nearly its old form, il tino, and useit to designate the vat in whichgrapes are trod out at the vintage. TINTINNABULATUS. Carry-ing a bell, especially with referenceto animals (Sidon. Ep. ii. 2.), roundwhose necks they were attachedamongst the ancients for the same. purposes as amongst ourselves. Theexample is from a small bronze cast. TINTINNABULUM (k&Bwv). Abell (Plaut. Trin. iv. 2. 162.); madein similar shapes, and used for much
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