. 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. .19. Ov. Met. ii. 412. Id. viii. 318.);such as the chlamys, palla, pallium,o o 2 284 FIBULA. sagum, and paludamentum, but notthe toga, which was wrapped on thebody by the ampli-tude of its ownfolds, and did notrequire anything tofix it. Broocheswere made of vari-ous materials andpatterns, in bone,ivory, bronz
. 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. .19. Ov. Met. ii. 412. Id. viii. 318.);such as the chlamys, palla, pallium,o o 2 284 FIBULA. sagum, and paludamentum, but notthe toga, which was wrapped on thebody by the ampli-tude of its ownfolds, and did notrequire anything tofix it. Broocheswere made of vari-ous materials andpatterns, in bone,ivory, bronze, theprecious metals, andof valuable stonesset in gold; uponthe same principleas is still adopted,with a sharp pin(acus, irepSur]),which shifted into a catch on therim of the ornament, and were com-monly used to fasten loose draperiesunder the throat, or on the point ofthe shoulder, like the annexed ex-ample, from a fictile vase. 2. A clasp; such as were usedmore particularly for fastening belts,girdles, and articles of a like nature(Virg. 2En. iv. 139.), made with ahook instead of a pin, which fastenedinto an eye on the opposite end ofthe belt from that to which the fibulais fixed, as in the annexed example,representing an original military beltdiscovered at Psestum; which like-. v. 313. Id. xii. 274.): usually madein the same form as our own, asshown by the annexed examples, allfrom ancient originals. But buckleswere often made in a much morecostly style, and of elaborate work-
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