. 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. that four separate banks, in tierssuperimposed one above the other, QUADRIVIUM. QUINCUNX. 543 are distinctly expressed by the fourhorizontal lines indicating the sepa-ration of each bank, and the diagonalposition of each file of oars, by theangular termination of their extre-mities on the left side of the ent
. 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. that four separate banks, in tierssuperimposed one above the other, QUADRIVIUM. QUINCUNX. 543 are distinctly expressed by the fourhorizontal lines indicating the sepa-ration of each bank, and the diagonalposition of each file of oars, by theangular termination of their extre-mities on the left side of the entirerange; thus plainly demonstratingthat the principle followed in dis-posing and reckoning the oarage of aquadriremis, was the same as thatpractised in the Biremis and Tri-remis, the illustrations under whichwords, being upon a larger scale, andfrom more detailed models, will showthe matter in a clearer light. QUADRIVIUM (rerpa68iov). Aplace where four streets or cross. roads meet (Catull. 58. Juv. i. 64).The illustration represents a streetview of this nature in the city ofPompeii. QUALUS and -UM (rdXapos).A very general name for a wickerbasket, which might be employed forvarious purposes; as, a womans woolbasket (Hor. Od. iii. 12. 4. and nextwoodcut) ; a strainer made of wickerwork, used at the vintage (, ii. 242. Serv. ad I. and woodcut s. Colum. 1.); a wicker cage orcoop for fowls (Columell. viii. 3. woodcut s. Cavea. 2.). It willbe observed that all the baskets inthe illustrations referred to possess aconical shape, though sometimesstanding upon their base, and atothers used in an inverted position,which is the very form described byColumella (ix. 15. 12.), and conse-quently to be received as the distin-guishing characteristic of the qualus. QUASILLARLE. Female slavesengaged in the spinning department of an ancient household, whose dutiesconsisted in carrying the baskets ofwool (quali, quasilli) to the spinnersand weavers, while
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