A dictionary of Greek and Roman . quently rectangular, used as a se-pulchral monument. (Pers. Sat. i. 36.) Severalof such cippi are in the Townly collection in theBritish Museum, one of which is given in the^woodcut annexed. The inscription is to the me-mory of Viria Primitiva, the wife of Lucius ViriusHelius, who died at the age of eighteen years, onemonth, and twenty-four days. Below the tablet,a festoon of fruits and flowers is suspended fromtwo rams heads at the corners ; and at the lowercorners are two sphinxes, with a head of Pan inthe area between them. On several cippi we
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . quently rectangular, used as a se-pulchral monument. (Pers. Sat. i. 36.) Severalof such cippi are in the Townly collection in theBritish Museum, one of which is given in the^woodcut annexed. The inscription is to the me-mory of Viria Primitiva, the wife of Lucius ViriusHelius, who died at the age of eighteen years, onemonth, and twenty-four days. Below the tablet,a festoon of fruits and flowers is suspended fromtwo rams heads at the corners ; and at the lowercorners are two sphinxes, with a head of Pan inthe area between them. On several cippi we findthe letters S. T. T. L., that is, Sit tibi terra levis,whence Persius, in the passage already referredto, says, Non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa. Itwas also usual to place on the cippus the extent ofthe burying-ground both along the road (infronte), and backwards to the field (in agrum)^ CIRCINUS. and likewise the inscription hoc monumentumkeredes non sequitur ; in order that it might notpass over to the heredes and be sold by them at. any time. (Hot. Sat. i. 8. 12, 13 ; Orelli, 4379, 4557, &c.) 2. A boundary-stone set up by the Agrimensoresto mark the divisions of lands. (Scriptores ReiAgr. p. 88, ed. Goesius.) 3. A military entrenchment made of the trunksof trees and palisades. (Caes. B. G. vii. 73.) CIRCENSES LUDI. [Circus.]CIRCINUS (5ia§r]Tr]s), a compass. The com-pass used by statuaries, architects, masons, andcarpenters, is often represented on the tombs ofsuch artificers, together with the other instrumentsof their profession or trade. The annexed wood-cut is copied from a tomb found at Rome. (Grater,Corp. Inscrip. t. i. part ii. p. 644.) It exhibits twokinds of compasses: viz. the common kind used
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