. 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. arrived beforehim. If, for instance, he entered bythe furthest of the small doors (vomi-torici) in the illustration, whilst thenumber of his seat happened to be inthe compartment (cavea) nearest tothe reader, he walked round the prce-cinctio until he reached the nearerflight of stairs (scetlce), which he de-s
. 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. arrived beforehim. If, for instance, he entered bythe furthest of the small doors (vomi-torici) in the illustration, whilst thenumber of his seat happened to be inthe compartment (cavea) nearest tothe reader, he walked round the prce-cinctio until he reached the nearerflight of stairs (scetlce), which he de-scended until he came to the row ofseats (gracilis) where his place wasnumbered, thus having to pass onlythose few persons who might be sittingbetween the staircase and the stallbelonsrins to him. PRlECLA VIUM. That portionof a piece of cloth intended to be de-corated with the purple stripe (cla-vus). which was woven before orwithout the stripe (Non. s. v.). Itwas made of white wool, and whencompleted the coloured threads weretaken up, and woven into the fabric,as is clear from a passage of Afranius(op. Non. I c.) : — meet nutrix, surge,si vis, prefer purpureim, prcecleiviumtextum est. PRJECO. A public crier; em-ployed by the Romans for many pur-poses— in a court of justice to. summon the plaintiff and defendant,announce the names of the parties,proclaim the sentence, &c.; at thecomitia to call up the centuries tovote, proclaim thevote of each cen-tury, and the namesof the persons elect-ed ; at auctions tocall the articles putup for sale, an-nounce the bid-dings, &c, at thepublic games, wherethey summoned thepeople to attendand proclaimed thenames of the suc-cessful competitors; at the publicassemblies, where they were em-ployed to keep silence and preserveorder; and at solemn funerals (funeraineiictiva), when they went round thecity inviting the people to attend, ofwhich the annexed figure affords anexample, from a Roman bas-relief, inwhich he is represented with his longtr
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