. 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. wood, bone, ivory, silver, or gold,and sometimes inlaid with preciousstones, and mostly without a guard.(Virg. jEn. x. 506. Tac. Ann. ii. Hadr. 12. Claud, de Laud. 91.) The illustration is copiedfrom an original found at Pompeii. 2. Poetical for stiva; the handleof a plough, which the ploug
. 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. wood, bone, ivory, silver, or gold,and sometimes inlaid with preciousstones, and mostly without a guard.(Virg. jEn. x. 506. Tac. Ann. ii. Hadr. 12. Claud, de Laud. 91.) The illustration is copiedfrom an original found at Pompeii. 2. Poetical for stiva; the handleof a plough, which the ploughman CARABUS. CARACALLA. 117 held in his hand to direct its course.(Ov. Pont. i. 8. 57.) See Stiva,and the illustration s. Arator. 3. The bier on which a dead bodywas carried out. (Festus, s. v. ad Virg. 2En. vi. 222, Lucilius andNovius, ap. Non. s. v. p. 4.) ; whencethe epithet capularis is applied to de-signate one who is near his death, orready for his bier. (Plant. Mil. 33.) The illustration is from abas-relief on a marble sepulchrenear Rome. CARABUS. A small boat madeof wicker-work, like the Welsh coracle, and covered with rawhides. (Isidor. Orig. xix. 1. 26.)The illustration is given by Scheffer{Mil Nav. p. 810.), from an old Vitruvius. The lines down thesides, which are more distinct in theoriginal, show the seams where thehides are sewn together. The formof the tiller and rudder, as well as itsposition at the stern of the boat,which is a very unusual one, but isalso seen on a sepulchral marble inBoldetei (Ci?niterj, p. 366.), indicatesa late period. CARACAL7LA. An article ofdress worn by the Gauls, whichoccupied the same relative positionin their attire as the xLT(*v of theGreeks and tunica of the differed, however, from them inform and size ; f
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