. 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. j Acad. iv. 12. Id. Tusc. v. 17. Pers.! iv. 10. LAPICFDA. A quarry-man,who hews stone out of the , L. L. viii. 62. LAPICIDINA (Xaro^lov). Astone quarry. Cic. JDiv. i. 13. v. 1. 23. LAPIDARIUS (MOovpyhs, Xidotfos,XiOoto/jlos). A stone-cutter, lapidary,. or mason, and, like our own terms
. 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. j Acad. iv. 12. Id. Tusc. v. 17. Pers.! iv. 10. LAPICFDA. A quarry-man,who hews stone out of the , L. L. viii. 62. LAPICIDINA (Xaro^lov). Astone quarry. Cic. JDiv. i. 13. v. 1. 23. LAPIDARIUS (MOovpyhs, Xidotfos,XiOoto/jlos). A stone-cutter, lapidary,. or mason, and, like our own terms,including the workers of marble aswell as stone. (Pet. Sat. 65. 5. 13. 6. 5.) The illustration re-presents two masons preparing ablock of stone or marble, and a co-lumn for the building of Carthage, inthe Vatican Virgil. 2. When used as an adjective, the,word is expressive of anything con-nected or concerned with stone; as,latomia lapidaria, a stone pit ( iii. 5. 65.) ; navis lapidaria, avessel freighted with stone (Pet. 12.) ; lapidarice liter ce, capital LAQUEAR. LARVA. 369 letters such as are cut out of stone ininscriptions. Id. 58. 7. LAQUEAR and LAQUEARE.(Virg. Mn. i. 726. Plin. H. N. ) Same as Lacunar. LAQUE ARIUS. One who makes,or ornaments with stucco work orgilding, the coffers of a ceiling. 13. 4. 2. LAQUEATORES. A class ofgladiators very similar to the Retiarii,excepting that they made use of anoose or lasso, instead of a net, tohamper their adversaries before at-tacking them with their we
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