. 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. recognize another instance in the ex-isting ruins of an edifice at Pozzuoli,known as the temple of Serapis. MONOXYLUS (fjio^vXos). Li-terally, made out of a single piece of. wood; applied adjectively to anysmall boat scooped out of a solidtrunk, such as the Hnter, alveus, sea-phula (Plin. H N. vi. 26.) ; and,
. 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. recognize another instance in the ex-isting ruins of an edifice at Pozzuoli,known as the temple of Serapis. MONOXYLUS (fjio^vXos). Li-terally, made out of a single piece of. wood; applied adjectively to anysmall boat scooped out of a solidtrunk, such as the Hnter, alveus, sea-phula (Plin. H N. vi. 26.) ; and,absolutely, as the name of a small 432 MONUMENTUM. MORA. broad-bottomed boat, employed bythe Roman soldiers in making bridgesover unfordable rivers. A certainnumber of these were usually trans-ported with an army upon waggons(Veget. Mil. iii. 7.), and are re-peatedly represented on the columnsof Trajan and Antonine, from thelatter of which the annexed example jis taken. MONUMENTUM OV*,fxslov). In general, any monument,record, or memorial intended to per-petuate the memory of persons orthings, such, for instance, as a sta-tue, a building, or a temple, particu-larly one on which the name of thefounder is inscribed. Cass. B. C. Cic. Verr. i. 4. Id. Div. i. 9. Ib. 28. 2. Monumentum sepulcri, or abso-lutely ; a monument, tomb, or sepul-chre, erected in memory of a deceasedperson, including both those inwhich the remains were actually de-posited (sep
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