. 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. eRoman people — sacrarium populiRomani. 2. A private chapel in a mans ownhouse (Cic. Fam. xiii. 2.), such asare attached to some of the mansionsof our old nobility and great Catholicfamilies. An apartment of this na-ture has been discovered in one ofthe houses at Pompeii, consisting of asquare room, with an a
. 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. eRoman people — sacrarium populiRomani. 2. A private chapel in a mans ownhouse (Cic. Fam. xiii. 2.), such asare attached to some of the mansionsof our old nobility and great Catholicfamilies. An apartment of this na-ture has been discovered in one ofthe houses at Pompeii, consisting of asquare room, with an absis at oneend for the statue of the divinity, analtar in the centre within a smallperistyle of four columns which sup-ported the roof, and furnished witha separate flight of stairs on eachof its flanks, conducting to the suitesof apartments situated in the upperstory. 3. An apartment in the Imperialpalace (Auson. Grat. Act.) ; so styledin order to flatter the emperor byinsinuating his deification. SAGA. Literally, a wise woman,deeply versed in religious mysteries(Cic. Div. i. 31. Festus s. Sagaces) ;whence the more common meaningaffixed to the word corresponds withour terms, a witch, sorceress, fortune-teller. (Hor. Od. i. 27. Columell. i. Id. xi. 1, 2.) The annexed figure. of a female in a Pompeian painting,who in the original is sitting justoutside the door of a miserablethatched hovel, exhibits all the popu-lar characteristics, and seems to ex-4 c 2 564 SAGrATUS. SAGITTO. hibit the original type of our nurserywitch. The mother Shiptons hat,the magic wand, the dog, and thecaldron, are all recorded and depictedin childrens story-books. SAGATUS. Wearing the mantleof coarse wollen cloth, termed sagum,as explained and illustrated underthat word ; and as the sagum wasworn by the military more especially,the word sagatus is frequently opposedto togatus, thereby implying that theindividual so equipped is preparedfor military duty, or for a violentconflict; in which sense it
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