. 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. toy. Plaut. Bud. iv. 4. 112. ; and Crepundia. j ENSIS (£i(pos). A sword. Used! mostly by the poets, but synonymous| with Gladius. (Quint, x. 1. 11.)See also Falx, 6. EPHEBEUM (itftGehv). A\ spacious apartment in the Greekgymnasium, where the youths per-formed their exercises in the presenceof their masters. (
. 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. toy. Plaut. Bud. iv. 4. 112. ; and Crepundia. j ENSIS (£i(pos). A sword. Used! mostly by the poets, but synonymous| with Gladius. (Quint, x. 1. 11.)See also Falx, 6. EPHEBEUM (itftGehv). A\ spacious apartment in the Greekgymnasium, where the youths per-formed their exercises in the presenceof their masters. (Vitruv. v. , v. 4. 7.) See the illustrations. Gymnasium (letter c), which willgive an idea of its usual locality andj relative size, as compared with the! other divisions of the establishment: EPHEMERIS (tynncpls). Ajournal or diary, kept by an indivi-dual, in which he noted down thedaily occurrences, actions, or expen-diture. Cic. Quint. 18. Nepos,xxv. 13. EPHIPPIARIUS. A saddler,| who makes ephippia. Inscript. p. 712. n. 339. EPHIPPIATUS. One who rides]\ upon a saddle pad (Ephippium) in- L L 2 260 EPHIPPIUM. EPIDROMUS. stead of the bare back. See the illus-trations s. Eques. Cses. B. G. iv. 2. EPHIPPIUM (tyimriov). A padsaddle for horses (Varro, ii. 15. Cses. B. G. iv. 2.), used by theGreeks and Romans. It is verycommonly represented in works ofart as a piece of cloth doubled severaltimes into a thick square pad (see thesecond illustration s. Eques) ; butalso occurs in many instances underthe form of a regularly stuffed pad,like the annexed example, from theAntonine Column. Similar ones arelikewise seen in the paintings ofHerculaneum and Pompeii, and onthe arch of Septimius Severus; butthe pad is more frequently concealedby the housings (stragula), whichcovered both sides of the animal. E PIT OR I (tyopoi). Literally,overseers; but the word was espe-cially used as the title of five magis-trates elected annually by the people ofSparta, to whom ve
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