A dictionary of Greek and Roman . any time. (Hot. Sat. i. 8. 12, 13 ; Orelli, 4379, 4557, &c.) 2. A boundary-stone set up by the Agrimensoresto mark the divisions of lands. (Scriptores ReiAgr. p. 88, ed. Goesius.) 3. A military entrenchment made of the trunksof trees and palisades. (Caes. B. G. vii. 73.) CIRCENSES LUDI. [Circus.]CIRCINUS (5ia§r]Tr]s), a compass. The com-pass used by statuaries, architects, masons, andcarpenters, is often represented on the tombs ofsuch artificers, together with the other instrumentsof their profession or trade. The annexed wood-cut is
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . any time. (Hot. Sat. i. 8. 12, 13 ; Orelli, 4379, 4557, &c.) 2. A boundary-stone set up by the Agrimensoresto mark the divisions of lands. (Scriptores ReiAgr. p. 88, ed. Goesius.) 3. A military entrenchment made of the trunksof trees and palisades. (Caes. B. G. vii. 73.) CIRCENSES LUDI. [Circus.]CIRCINUS (5ia§r]Tr]s), a compass. The com-pass used by statuaries, architects, masons, andcarpenters, is often represented on the tombs ofsuch artificers, together with the other instrumentsof their profession or trade. The annexed wood-cut is copied from a tomb found at Rome. (Grater,Corp. Inscrip. t. i. part ii. p. 644.) It exhibits twokinds of compasses: viz. the common kind used. for drawing circles and measuring distances, andone with curved legs, probably intended to mea-sure the thickness of columns, cylindrical pieces ofwood, or similar objects. The common kind isdescribed by the scholiast on Aristophanes (), who compares its form to that of the letter A.[See cut under Norma.] The mycologists sup- CIRCUS. 283posed this instrument to have been invented byPerdix, who was the nephew of Daedalus, andthrough envy thrown by him over the precipice ofthe Athenian acropolis. (Ovid, Met. viii. 241—251.) Compasses of various forms were discoveredin a statuarys house at Pompeii. [J. Y.] CIRCITORES. [Castra.] CIRCUMLFTIO. [Pictura.] CIRCUMLUVIO. [Alluvio.] CIRCUITORES. [Castra.] CIRCUS (nnrodpo/xos), a place for chariot-races and horse-races, and in which the Romanraces (Circenses Ludi) took place. When Tar-quinius Priscus had taken the town of Apiolaefrom the Latins, as related in the early Romanlegends, he commemorated his success by an ex-hibition of races
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