. 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. vok. Cic. Fam. iii. 6. Cses. B. 65. B. C. i. 17. 2. The same title was subsequentlyconferred upon a body of young menselected from the equestrian families,and formed into a corps, by the em-peror Galba, to which the duty ofkeeping guard at the doors of theimperial bed-chamber was Galb.
. 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. vok. Cic. Fam. iii. 6. Cses. B. 65. B. C. i. 17. 2. The same title was subsequentlyconferred upon a body of young menselected from the equestrian families,and formed into a corps, by the em-peror Galba, to which the duty ofkeeping guard at the doors of theimperial bed-chamber was Galb. 10. EXACISCULATUS. Dilapi-dated, destroyed, or pulled out with apick (acisculus); a common wayof breaking into tombs, for the pur-pose of stealing the valuables depo-sited in them. Hence, the wordis of frequent occurrence on sepul-chral inscriptions, in the form of acaution to the public against the com-mission of such an offence. Mur. 1028. 2. ap. Don. cl. 27. EXA MEN. The tongue on thebeam of a balance, rising perpendi-cularly from the beam, and movingin an eye affixed to the same, bywhich it serves to point out theequality or inequality of weight be-tween the objects in the scale. (Virg. JSn. xii. 725. Pers. Sat. i. 6.) Theillustration represents a scale beam. furnished with such a tongue andeye, from an original of bronze pre-served amongst the Roman antiqui-ties in the British Museum. EXASCIATUS. Hewn out ofthe rough, and into shape, with acarpenters adze (ascia) ; and, as thiswas the first operation before finish-ing and polishing with other andfiner tools, the expression opus exas-ciatum implies a work already some-what advanced ; i.,e. in which all thepreliminaries have been successfullygot through. Plaut. As. ii. 2. 93. EXCALCEATUS. Literally,without shoes (calcei, Suet. ); thence, in a special sense, acomic actor (Seneca, Bp. 8.), as con-
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