. 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. impress of a quadriga stamped on thereverse, as shown by the annexedspecimen from an original of thesame size. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. xxii. 58. QUADRIREMIS (rerpijpTjs). Awar-galley propelled by four banks(ordines) of oars on each of its sides.(Plin. H. N. vii. 57. Cic. Verr. ii. ) The illustration,
. 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. impress of a quadriga stamped on thereverse, as shown by the annexedspecimen from an original of thesame size. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. xxii. 58. QUADRIREMIS (rerpijpTjs). Awar-galley propelled by four banks(ordines) of oars on each of its sides.(Plin. H. N. vii. 57. Cic. Verr. ii. ) The illustration, copied from amedal of the Emperor Gordian, thoughtoo minute and imperfect to be re-ceived as a complete representationof a quadrireme, yet affords a valuableand most satisfactory authority re-specting the chief point which dis-tinguished the class to which it be-longed, viz. the position and ratingof its oarage. It will be perceived. that four separate banks, in tierssuperimposed one above the other, QUADRIVIUM. QUINCUNX. 543 are distinctly expressed by the fourhorizontal lines indicating the sepa-ration of each bank, and the diagonalposition of each file of oars, by theangular termination of their extre-mities on the left side of the entirerange; thus plainly demonstratingthat the principle followed in dis-posing and reckoning the oarage of aquadriremis, was the same as thatpractised in the Biremis and Tri-remis, the illustrations under whichwords, being upon a larger scale, andfrom more detailed models, will showthe matter in a clearer light. QUADRIVIUM (rerpa68iov). Aplace where four streets or cross
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