. 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. e of distinguishing the correct pronunciation of the Latin wordsfor those who might require such assistance, though it must be acknow-ledged that every attempt of the kind will be liable to some objection orother. In the commencement I placed a mark after an open vowel,or after the consonant which follows a c
. 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. e of distinguishing the correct pronunciation of the Latin wordsfor those who might require such assistance, though it must be acknow-ledged that every attempt of the kind will be liable to some objection orother. In the commencement I placed a mark after an open vowel,or after the consonant which follows a close one, according to our ordi-nary manner of pronunciation. But it subsequently occurred to me thatthe prosody might be indicated, as well as the pronunciation at the sametime, by always placing the mark after a long vowel, as liniger, linea,lorica, and after the consonant which follows a short one, as lanius, Ufuus,lificen ; which method has been systematically adopted throughout thelatter half of the volume. December, 1848. THE COMPANION TO LATIN DICTIONARY. ABACULUS (a§a/aV/€os). A smalltile or die of glass, or a compositionin imitation of stone, stained of variouscolours, and used for inlaying pat-terns in mosaic pavements. (Plin. H. 67. Moschusap. Athen. v. 41.). The illustration represents part of theancient mosaic pavement in the churchof S. Croce in Gerusalemme, at Rome. ABACUS In its general signification, a rectangular slab ofstone, marble, earthenware, &c. ;whence it is applied in a more specialsense to various other objects, whichpossess the characteristic form of alevel tablet. 1. A tablet employed in makingarithmetical calculations, on the plan
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