School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ive laws, but accordingto his own sense of justice and equity. Butat Athens a number of Kpnal were chosenby ballot from a number of selected candi-dates at every celebration of the Dionysia,and were called oi KpLrai, kut i^ox^v. Theiroffice was to judge of the merit of the dif-ferent choruses and dramatic poems, and toaward the prizes to the victors. Theirnumber was five for comedy and the samenumber for tragedy, one being taken fromevery tribe. CROBYLUS. [CoRYMBus.] CROCOTA (sc. vestis, KpoKcorhv , or KpoKwrhs sc. x^^^^)^ ^^^ ^ k
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ive laws, but accordingto his own sense of justice and equity. Butat Athens a number of Kpnal were chosenby ballot from a number of selected candi-dates at every celebration of the Dionysia,and were called oi KpLrai, kut i^ox^v. Theiroffice was to judge of the merit of the dif-ferent choruses and dramatic poems, and toaward the prizes to the victors. Theirnumber was five for comedy and the samenumber for tragedy, one being taken fromevery tribe. CROBYLUS. [CoRYMBus.] CROCOTA (sc. vestis, KpoKcorhv , or KpoKwrhs sc. x^^^^)^ ^^^ ^ kindof gala-dress, chiefly worn by women onsolemn occasions, and in Greece especially,at the festival of the Dionysia, Its namewas derived from crocus, one of the favouritecolours of the Greek ladies. CROTALUM (jfpoVaAov), a kind ofcymbal. It appears to have been a splitreed or cane, which clattered when shakenwith the hand. Women who played on thecrotalum were termed crotalistriue. Theannexed cut represents one of these crota-listriae FBMALE PLAYING ON XUE CBOTALA. CROWNS. [Corona.] CUBICULARII, slaves who had thecare of the sleeping and dwelling slaves were always selected forthis office, as they had, to a certain extent,the care of their masters person. It wasthe duty of the cubicularii to introducevisiters to their master. CUBlCULUM usually means a sleep-ing and dwelling room in a Roman house[ DoMus], but it is also applied to the pavilionor tent in which the Roman emperors wereaccustomed to witness the public games. Itappears to have been so called, because theemperors were accustomed to recline in thecubicula, instead of sitting, as was ancientlythe practice, in a sella curulis. CUBITUS (ttvxvs), a Greek and Ro-man measure of length, originally the lengthof tlie human arm from the elbow to thewrist, or to the knuckle of the middle was equal to a foot and a half, which gives1 foot 5*4744 inches Eng. for the Roman, and1 foot 6*2016 inche
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