A dictionary of Greek and Roman . s by Scopas, and Cicero ( Verr. iv. 3)describes a pair in bronze, which were the exquisitework of Polycletus. [Caryatis.] [J. Y.] CANISTRUM. [Canephoros.] CANTABRUM, a standard used at the timeof the Roman empire, and carried in festive pro-cessions. (Tertull. Apol. 16 ; Minuc. Felix, 29.) CANTERII is used by Vitruvius (iv. 2) forthe rafters of the roof, extending from the ridge tothe eaves. [P. S.] CANTHARUS {KdvOapos) was a kind ofdrinking-cup, furnished with handles (cantharusa?2sa, Virg. Ed. vi. 17 ; Hor. Carm. i. 20). It issaid by some write
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . s by Scopas, and Cicero ( Verr. iv. 3)describes a pair in bronze, which were the exquisitework of Polycletus. [Caryatis.] [J. Y.] CANISTRUM. [Canephoros.] CANTABRUM, a standard used at the timeof the Roman empire, and carried in festive pro-cessions. (Tertull. Apol. 16 ; Minuc. Felix, 29.) CANTERII is used by Vitruvius (iv. 2) forthe rafters of the roof, extending from the ridge tothe eaves. [P. S.] CANTHARUS {KdvOapos) was a kind ofdrinking-cup, furnished with handles (cantharusa?2sa, Virg. Ed. vi. 17 ; Hor. Carm. i. 20). It issaid by some writers to have derived its namefrom one Cantharus, who first made cups of this 238 CAPISTRUM. form. (Athen. xi. p. 474, e ; Pollux, vi. 96 ;Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19. § 25.) The cantharus wasthe cup sacred to Bacchus (Macrob. Sat. v. 21 ;Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 53), who is frequently repre-sented on ancient vases holding it in his hand, asin the following woodcut, which is taken from apainting on an ancient vase. (Millingen, Pein-tures Antiques, pi. 53.). CANT I CUM. In the Roman theatre, betweenthe first and second acts, flute music appears tohave been introduced (Plaut. Pseudol. i. 5. 160),which was accompanied by a kind of recitative,performed by a single actor, or if there were two,the second was not allowed to speak with the Diomedes (iii. p. 489. ed. Putsch.) says: — In canticis una tantum debet esse persona, aut siduae fuerint, ita debent esse, ut ex occulto unaaudiat nec colloquatur, sed secum, si opus fuerit,verba faciat. In the canticum, as violent gesti-culation was required, it appears to have been thecustom, from the time of Livius Andronicus, forthe actor to confine himself to the gesticulation,while another person sang the recitative. ( 2 ; Lucian, De Saltat. 30 ; Isidor. Orig. ) The canticum alwa}rs formed a part of aRoman comedy. Diomedes observes that a Romancomedy consists of two parts, dialogue and canticum(Latinae comoediae duobus tantum
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