A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 10, 20,. and 30 feet in diameter, cut out of asingle piece of some hard stone, such as porphyry,granite, basanite, breccia, alabaster and marble. Aningenious and elegant variety, of which there is aspecimen in the Capitoline Museum, is a tripod, upthe centre of which the jet passes, the legs beinghollow to carry off the water again. Very oftenthe water was made to flow out of bronze statues,especially of boys, and of Tritons, Nereids, Satyrs,and such beings : several of these statues have beenfound at Pompeii ; and four of them are engravedin Pom
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 10, 20,. and 30 feet in diameter, cut out of asingle piece of some hard stone, such as porphyry,granite, basanite, breccia, alabaster and marble. Aningenious and elegant variety, of which there is aspecimen in the Capitoline Museum, is a tripod, upthe centre of which the jet passes, the legs beinghollow to carry off the water again. Very oftenthe water was made to flow out of bronze statues,especially of boys, and of Tritons, Nereids, Satyrs,and such beings : several of these statues have beenfound at Pompeii ; and four of them are engravedin Pompeii, vol. i. p. 104, one of which is given be-low. On the Monte Cavallo, at Rome, is a colossalstatue of a river god, probably the Rhine, whichwas formerly in the forum of Augustus, which itrefreshes with a stream of water pouring con-tinually into a basin of granite twenty-seven feetin diameter. The celebrated group, known asthe Toro Farnese, originally, in Hirts opinion,adorned a fountain. Mythological subjects were FORFEX. FORNACALIA. 545. also sculptured over the fountains, as among theGreeks; thus at Rome, there were the fountainsof Ganymede and Prometheus, and the Nymphaeumof Jupiter. (Stieglitz. Archdol. d. Baukunst, vol. 2. pp. 76, 79 ; Hirt, Lehre der Gebdude. pp. 399,403.) [P. S.] FORCEPS (irvpaypa), tongs or pincers, needno further explanation here, as they were used inantiquity for the same purposes as they are inmodern times. They were invented, as the ety-mology indicates, for taking hold of what is hot(foiTum, Festus, s. v. • Servius, ad Virg. 175, Aen. viii. 453, xii. 404), used by smiths,and therefore attributed to Vulcan and the Cy-clopes. (Virg. U. cc. ; Horn. E. xviii. 477, 434 ; Callim. in Del. 144 ; forcipe curva, Ovid,Met. xii. 277.) [Incus; Malleus.] FORES. [Jaxua.] FORFEX, dim. FORFICULA (if/aAk, dim. shears (Serv. in Virg. Aen. viii. 453),used, 1. in shearing sheep, as represented in theannexed woodcut, which is taken from a
Size: 1312px × 1905px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsmithwilliam18131893, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840
