. 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. Roman schoolmasters to punish theirscholars, (Plin. H. N. ix. 39. v. 27. 15.) The illustration iscopied from a painting at Hercu-laneum, which represents the interiorof a school-room. ANGUIS. 1. A serpent, or snake,which amongst the Romans was em-ployed as a symbolical representationof the genius
. 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. Roman schoolmasters to punish theirscholars, (Plin. H. N. ix. 39. v. 27. 15.) The illustration iscopied from a painting at Hercu-laneum, which represents the interiorof a school-room. ANGUIS. 1. A serpent, or snake,which amongst the Romans was em-ployed as a symbolical representationof the genius loci, or presiding spiritof a place. (Serv. ad Virg. JEn,F 2 36 ANGUSTICLAVIUS. 85.) Figures of serpents were there-fore painted against a wall, in thesame way as the cross is in modernItaly, to deter the public from con-taminating the spot, and answeredthe same purpose as our injunction Commit no nuisance. Pers. 113. These signs are frequently met within the housesof Pompeii, inkitchens, bake-houses, andsuch places,where cleanli-ness is particu-larly desirable ;and generallywith an altarbetween them,as seen in theannexed illustration, which was co-pied by the writer from one of thecorridors leading into the Thermae ofTrajan at Rome. It is painted infresco, and has the following inscrip-tion underneath : IOVEM ET JUNONEM ET DUODECIMDEOS IRATOS H ABE AT QUISQUIS HICMINXERIT AUT CACARIT. 2. A military ensign made in imi-tation of the figure ofa serpent, and whichwas adopted in theRoman armies forthe ensign of a co-hort. (Claud, in 5. 177. 5. 40.) Itwas more common-ly termed Draco, under which name the materials, cha-racter, and uses a
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