. 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. blow from the Popa, as exhibited bythe annexed engraving, from a Ro-man bas-relief. Liv. xl. 29. i. 1. 12. Inscript. ap. 450. n. 13. VICTORIATUS, sc. Roman silver coin, in value half adenarius, so termed because it had an4 z 2 724 VICUS. VINCULUM. image of Victory on the reverse,
. 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. blow from the Popa, as exhibited bythe annexed engraving, from a Ro-man bas-relief. Liv. xl. 29. i. 1. 12. Inscript. ap. 450. n. 13. VICTORIATUS, sc. Roman silver coin, in value half adenarius, so termed because it had an4 z 2 724 VICUS. VINCULUM. image of Victory on the reverse, asshown by the annexed example, from. an original. Varro, L. L. x. Font. 5. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 13. VFCUS (Kdo/iiT]). In the primarynotion, a habitation, taken in a col-lective sense, as a number of housescontiguous to each other ; thence, astreet with houses on each side, bothin a country village or a city ; andso a division or quarter of a town,consisting of a certain number ofstreets and houses. Hor. Epist. 269. Ov. Fast, vi. 609. 24. VFDULUS. A large wicker-basket covered with leather, andemployed for holding a number ofminor articles within itself — cis-tellam in vidulo (Plaut. Hud. iv. ), marsupium cum viatico in vidido(Id. Men. v. 7. 49.) ; and as a fish-basket (Id. Bud. iv. 3. 54—72.),which passage testifies that it wascovered with leather. VICTOR (from vieo, to plat). Amaker of wicker-baskets; the namegiven by Plautus (Bud. iv. 3. 62.)to one who makes a vidulus. VIGILES, Sentinels, who per-form the night watch of an army
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