. 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. lighter character, being partiallyformed with open rail-work insteadof close pannelling, as shown bynumerous examples on fictile vases,from one of which, found at , formerly Saticola, the an-nexed engraving is copied. 3. Currus volucris Qirrrivhv apfia).A chariot, with wings attached to the. extremit
. 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. lighter character, being partiallyformed with open rail-work insteadof close pannelling, as shown bynumerous examples on fictile vases,from one of which, found at , formerly Saticola, the an-nexed engraving is copied. 3. Currus volucris Qirrrivhv apfia).A chariot, with wings attached to the. extremities of the axle-tree, fancifullyattributed by poets and artists tothe cars of Jupiter and Apollo ( i. 34. 8. Plato, Phced. torn. 321. Bipont), and frequently re-presented on fictile vases, from oneof which the annexed illustration iscopied. 4. Currus triumphalis. A trium- CURSOR. CUSPIS. 229 phal car, in which the Roman generalwas carried at his triumph. Thiswas not open at the back, like theordinary currus, but was completelycircular, and closed all round ( 21.), as shown by the annexed en-graving, from a medal of Vespasian,
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