. 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. gedinstrument with chords of differentlengths and substance, similar to ourharp. (Scipio African, ap. ii. 10. Persius v. 95. Ptol. Harm.) It was sometimesof small dimensions, like the Welshharp ; at others a large and powerfulinstrument, like our own, and highlyornamented, as shown by t
. 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. gedinstrument with chords of differentlengths and substance, similar to ourharp. (Scipio African, ap. ii. 10. Persius v. 95. Ptol. Harm.) It was sometimesof small dimensions, like the Welshharp ; at others a large and powerfulinstrument, like our own, and highlyornamented, as shown by the annexed example, from an Egyptian painting, W m (J/ now well-known as Bruces harp,who first made it public. 2. A military engine employed forscaling walls. (Festus s. v. iv. 21. Vitruv. x. 16. 9.) Inthe absence of any representation ofthe machine, we may easily conceiveits use and character from the abovefigure, as a moveable platform raisedup and down by a number of ropesattached to pullies on the top of theframe, like the strings of a harp. SAMBUCINA and SAMBUCIS-TRIA (o-afx^vKiarpLa). A femaleharpist (Plaut. Stick, ii. 3. 57.);mostly a foreign woman of Egyptianor Asiatic race. (Liv. xxxix. 6.)When playing, they either stood up-right, in the position of the preceding. figure, or knelt and sat upon theirhams, as in the annexed example,which represents an Egyptian per-former, from the tombs of Beni Has-san. SAMNITES. A class of gladi- SANDALIGERULiE. S ARAB ALL A. 571
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