. 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. ore being put on, in a very pecu-| liar manner, which will be readilyi understood from the annexed dia-j gram and description. The entire| square abcd was first turned back; or folded down in the line e f, whichreduces it to the parallelogram| efcd, the line ab coinciding atthe back with the line gh in front.
. 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. ore being put on, in a very pecu-| liar manner, which will be readilyi understood from the annexed dia-j gram and description. The entire| square abcd was first turned back; or folded down in the line e f, whichreduces it to the parallelogram| efcd, the line ab coinciding atthe back with the line gh in front.! It was then doubled across the middlein the line ikl, and the side fc| brought together with the opposite! one ed, the part turned backi being left on the outside, so that thewhole is finally reduced in size to thefigure ed Li, which is double, andentirely closed on one side, repre-sented by ikl, but open at the other,egd. It was then put on in the fol-lowing manner. The wearer openedthe two sides, thus brought togetherat egd, and passed one of themround the back, so as to stand ex-actly in the centre of the square PALLA, 465 edli, or ec?/i in the illustration on the I sents the side view of a figure, fromopposite column. She then fixed the | a statue of Herculaneum, belonging A. back and front together by a brooch onthe point of the left shoulder at n, pass-ing her arm through the aperture niof the diagram, and ni in the drapedfigure. Another brooch was thenfixed on the top of the right shoulder,at m, which one of the females is inthe act of doing, so that the parts be-tween m and n afford an opening forthe head, and those between me (orMe, draped figure), another arm-holefor the right arm, similar to the oneon the other side. The corners e,g, and I, k on the first diagram, ore and i on the last one, will fall downin the direction indicated by thedotted lines, and occupying the situ-ations marked eg, ik on the draperyof the right-hand figure; while thewhole of the upper port
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