. 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. style in the sameway as it does upon the atrium onthe side here shown. 2. Also in the plural; the stallsor stables for the horses and chariotsin the Circus. (Ennius ap. Cic. 48. Cassiodor. Var. Ep. iii. 51.)See Carcer, 2., where the objectis described and illustrated. FAVISSJS. Pits, or cellars con-str
. 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. style in the sameway as it does upon the atrium onthe side here shown. 2. Also in the plural; the stallsor stables for the horses and chariotsin the Circus. (Ennius ap. Cic. 48. Cassiodor. Var. Ep. iii. 51.)See Carcer, 2., where the objectis described and illustrated. FAVISSJS. Pits, or cellars con-structed underneath a temple, inwhich the sacred implements, orna-ments, furniture, or other propertybelonging to the edifice were stowedaway after they had become unfit foruse. (Varro, ap. Gell. ii. 10. Broc-chi, Suola di JRoma, p. 152.) Threepits of this nature were discoveredunder the ruins of an ancient templeat Fiesole, filled with broken musicalinstruments, various implements andutensils in ivory and bronze, as wellas idols, lamps, and fictile vases, alldamaged and mutilated. torn. iii. p. 119. FAVUS. A flag, tile, or slab ofmarble cut into a six-cornered figureof the same shape as the cell in a honey-comb (favus), used for makingpavements of the kind termed sec-.
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