. 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. the cellarattached to a vineyard (cella vinaria),which was ascended by two or threesteps, and intended to form a gang-way on a level with the tops of thelarge vessels (dolia, cupce), in whichthe wine was kept in bulk, for theconvenience of the persons who su-perintended its manufacture and sale.(Pallad. i. 18
. 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. the cellarattached to a vineyard (cella vinaria),which was ascended by two or threesteps, and intended to form a gang-way on a level with the tops of thelarge vessels (dolia, cupce), in whichthe wine was kept in bulk, for theconvenience of the persons who su-perintended its manufacture and sale.(Pallad. i. 18. 1.) It was so calleda calcando, or ab opere calcato; andis incorrectly explained in the dic-tionaries, where it is taken for a vatin which the grapes were troddenout (see the preceding wood-cut);for a contrivance of that descriptionbelongs clearly to the press-room(torcularturn), in which the wine wasmade, and not to the cellar (cellavinaria), in which it was designates the same thing bythe term suggestum. JR. JR. 154. CALCEAMEN. Same as Cal- CEUS. CALCEAMENTUM. A gene-ral term, expressive of all kinds ofcovering for the feet; including thevarious descriptions of boots andshoes enumerated in the classedIndex. CALCEOLARIUS. A shoe-maker. (Plaut. Aul. iii. 5. 38.) The. illustration is from a painting exca-vated at Resina, representing theinterior of a shoe-makers shop, inwhich the two genii here figuredare employed at their trade. CALCEOLUS. CALCEUS. 99 CALCFOLUS (ZirofolfxdTiop).Diminutive of Calceus ; a smallshoe or boot; and thence more espe- whence the expression calceos mutare(Cic. Phil. xiii. 13.) means, tobecome a senator. It was fastened
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