. 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. 16. preceding wood-cut, andAbacus. 3. A pebble used in voting, whichwas thrown into the urn ; a whiteone to acquit, and a black one tocondemn. Ovid. Met. xv. 41. 4. A counter employed in games ofchance or skill, for the same purposeas our chess and draughtsmen; andthe term is applied indiscriminatelyto the me
. 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. 16. preceding wood-cut, andAbacus. 3. A pebble used in voting, whichwas thrown into the urn ; a whiteone to acquit, and a black one tocondemn. Ovid. Met. xv. 41. 4. A counter employed in games ofchance or skill, for the same purposeas our chess and draughtsmen; andthe term is applied indiscriminatelyto the men employed in the ludusduodecim scriptorum, or backgammon,and in the ludus latrunculorum, ordraughts. Ov. Am. ii. 207. viii. 8. 2. Aul. Gell. xiv. 1. 9. CALDARIUM. The thermal* chamber in a set of baths. ( 10. Seneca, Ep. 86. Celsus, i. 4.)In all the baths which have beendiscovered, public as well as private,this apartment is constantly arrangedupon a uniform plan, and consists ofthree principal parts ; a semicircularalcove (laconicum) at one end (theright hand in the engraving), with alabrum upon a raised stem in thecentre of it; a vacant space in thecentre of the room (sudatio, sudato- rium) ; and a warm-water bath (alveus)at the other extremity — all which. parts were essential to the ancientsystem of bathing. In the centralportion, the bather exercised himselfby lifting weights and performinggymnastics, for the purpose of ex-citing perspiration; he then sat downin the laconicum, and underwent aprofuse perspiration, superinduced bythe hot air proceeding from the fluesseen under the flooring of the room ;or entered the warm water bath, ifpreferred, instead. It is probable thatin the more magnificent and extensivestructures, such as the Roman Ther-mae, separate apartments were appro-priated for each of these operations :but in the smaller establishments,such as the baths of Pompeii, and inprivate houses, the thermal chamber,in all the instances hitherto dis
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