. 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. ngs waswhite upon a purple ground, that ofthe Roman senators purple on awhite one. 9. Clavus angustus. The narrowstripe; a distinctive badge of theequestrian order. (Pa-terc. ii. 88. 2.) It wasof purple colour, likethe former, and also adecoration to the tunic;but differed in cha-racter, inasmuch as itconsist
. 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. ngs waswhite upon a purple ground, that ofthe Roman senators purple on awhite one. 9. Clavus angustus. The narrowstripe; a distinctive badge of theequestrian order. (Pa-terc. ii. 88. 2.) It wasof purple colour, likethe former, and also adecoration to the tunic;but differed in cha-racter, inasmuch as itconsisted of two narrowstripes running parallelto each other downthe front of the tunic,one on the right, andthe other on the leftside of the person ;whence the plural pur~puree (Quint, xi. 3. 138.) is some-times used, instead of the singular, todistinguish it. In paintings of a lateperiod, this ornament is frequentlymet with, similar to that on the figureannexed, representing a CamiUus inthe Vatican Virgil. But at theperiod when such works were ex-ecuted, it had ceased to be worn asa distinctive badge of rank; for itrepeatedly occurs on figures actingin a menial capacity, such as cup-bearers and attendants at the table,who were usually attired in fineclothes, in the same [way as the an-. cient costume of this country hasnow descended to a livery. CLEPSYDRA (jtXetytopa). Anhour-glass, originally employed bythe Greeks, and subsequentlyadopted at Rome, for the pur-pose of measuring the time al-lowed to each speaker in acourt of law. (Plin. Ep. ) These glasses were made ofdifferent sizes, according to the lengthof time for which they were requiredto run ; and did not differ materiallyfrom the modern ones, with the ex-ception of being filled with waterinstead of sand, as may be collectedfrom the description of Apuleius{Met iii. p. 44.), and still morefrom the example annexed, which iscopied from a bas-relief of the Matteipalace at Rome. The one describedby Aristotle (Probl xvi. 8.)
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