. 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. s ( 184. Auson. Perioch. Odyss. de Mdijie. Justin, i. 10.) ; tothe basilica?, courts of justice, andmerchants changes (Vitruv. v. 1.),where they would serve to containthe articles of merchandize, the saleof which was negotiated in the in-terior; to the curia, the town-hall,and senate-hous
. 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. s ( 184. Auson. Perioch. Odyss. de Mdijie. Justin, i. 10.) ; tothe basilica?, courts of justice, andmerchants changes (Vitruv. v. 1.),where they would serve to containthe articles of merchandize, the saleof which was negotiated in the in-terior; to the curia, the town-hall,and senate-house (Dion Cass. li. Mon. Ancyran. ap. 232. 4.), perhaps for the receptionof the slaves awaiting their masters,and of the people naturally congre-gating about such places for curiosityor business. The external characterand appearance of these appendagesis sufficiently indicated by the pre-ceding wood-cut ; and their generalplan, with reference to the rest ofthe edifice, by the next one, whichrepresents the ground-plan of anextensive building at Pompeii, con-structed by the priestess Eumachia,consisting of an enclosed gallery(crypta, a), an open one (porticus, b)adjoining, which encloses a court- yard or area (c) in the centre ; thewhole being covered by a grand en-. trance, fronting the forum, withthe name Chalcidicum inscribedupon a slab of marble affixed to thewall. CHAMULCRUS (Xwv\k6s). Asort of dray employed in the trans-port of very weighty substances, suchas large blocks of marble, columns,obelisks, &c, which lay low uponthe ground (whence the name, fromXct^ai, the ground, and %\kg>, todraw), and probably resembled thosenow used for similar purposes. Am-mian. xvii. 4. 14. CHARACTER (x^a^). Ingeneral, any sign, note, or mark,stamped, engraved, or otherwise im-pressed upon any substance, like thedevice upon coins, seals, &c.; and in amore special sense, the brand or markburnt into the flanks of oxen, sheep,or horses, in order to distinguishthe breed, cert
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