. 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. found amongst the ruins of Romanbuildings in London. Compare Pila. 2. The hollow basin in which theolives were placed in the bruising-machine, called a trapetum, to becrushed by the wheels which workedround it. (Cato, R. R. xxii. 1.) Itwill be observed from the figure onthe right hand of the annexed wood-cut,
. 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. found amongst the ruins of Romanbuildings in London. Compare Pila. 2. The hollow basin in which theolives were placed in the bruising-machine, called a trapetum, to becrushed by the wheels which workedround it. (Cato, R. R. xxii. 1.) Itwill be observed from the figure onthe right hand of the annexed wood-cut, representing an original trapetumfound at Stabia in elevation and sec-tion, that the mortarium (marked 1. each plan) is a sort of basin withsides and bottom of the same hollowcurvilinear form as the common mor-tar, though the centre of it is occupiedby a short thick column (miliarium,. 2. 2.), which supports the bruising-stones (orbes, 3. 3.). 3. A large basin, or receiver ofsimilar form, in which fine cement orstucco was kneaded and mixed. N. xxxvi. 55. Vitruv. vii. 3. 10. 4. A hollow trench dug round theroots of a tree to collect moisture(Pallad. iv. 8. 1.) ; a meaning whichclearly arises from the resemblancewhich the trench and trunk of thetree bears to the miliarium and mor-tarium of a trapetum, as shown by thesection under No. 2. MUCPNIUM or MUCCPNIUM.(Arnob. ii. 5.) A pocket-handker-chief for wiping the nose. See Su- DARIUM. 3 K 434 mucro. MULTICIUS. MUCRO. The point of any in-strument, weapon, or other artificialor natural object which is pointed,jagged, or sharply acuminated; butmore especially the point of a sword,as opposed to cuspis, the point of aspear. Ov. Met. xii. 485. Cic. Philxiv. 3. Virg. Lucan, &c. MULCTRA, MULCTRALE,and MULCTRUM (<^oAy^s). Amilk-pail for milking cows and goats(Virg. Eel iii. 30. Georg. iii. 177.
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