. 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. It was fromthe practice of carrying money aboutin this manner, that the Greek ex-pression PaAavrioTOfjios, equivalent toour cut-purse, derived its origin andmeaning. The illustration is from afigure on a bronze lamp. CRUPPELLARIUS. A Celticword employed by theGauls to de-signate a particular class of men whof
. 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. It was fromthe practice of carrying money aboutin this manner, that the Greek ex-pression PaAavrioTOfjios, equivalent toour cut-purse, derived its origin andmeaning. The illustration is from afigure on a bronze lamp. CRUPPELLARIUS. A Celticword employed by theGauls to de-signate a particular class of men whofought as gladiators, clothed fromhead to foot in an entire suit of ar-mour. (Tac. Ann. i. 43. Sev. 56.) Men thus accoutredwere termed cataphracti or clibanariiby the Persians, and cruppellarii bythe Gauls. See the illustration CRUSMATA or CRUMATA(KpovfjLara or Kpovapara). Castanets;in ancient times, as well as our own,peculiarly characteristic of theSpanish nation (Mart. Ep. vi. 71.),though the same instruments werealso played by the women of Greeceand Italy, as is proved by the an-nexed illustration, from a fictile vase ;and by a bas-relief of the Capitoline 218 CRUSTS. CRYPTA. Museum (iii. 36.), in which a femaleis represented with the same instru-. ment in her right hand, and the sca-billum under her left foot. CRUSTiE. Figures or imagesin low-relief, embossed upon plate, ascontradistinguished from emblemata,which were in high-relief. ii. 4. 23. Paul. Dig. 34. 2. 33. CRUSTARIUS. An artist whodesigned, and modelled crustce forgold and silver plate. (Plin. H. 55.) They were sold atRome in shops appropriated for thatparticular branch of trade, calledcrustarioB tabernce. Festus, s. v. CRUSTULARIUS. One whomakes and sells crustula. SenecEp 56. CRUSTULUM. Diminutive ofCrustum. Any small piece of pastryor cake, such as a pastrycooks tart;especially given to children. i. 1. 25. Juv. Sat ix. 5. andSchol. Vet. ad I CRUSTUM. A f
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