. 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. 27. Macrob. Sat iii. 4. Varro, iii. 123. Serv. ad 2En. and 325.) They are representedin various ways on coins and medals ;but in the annexed illustration, fromthe Vatican Virgil, which has the PENICILLUM. PENNA. 487. name inscribed over them, they ap-pear as old men with their headsveiled, l
. 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. 27. Macrob. Sat iii. 4. Varro, iii. 123. Serv. ad 2En. and 325.) They are representedin various ways on coins and medals ;but in the annexed illustration, fromthe Vatican Virgil, which has the PENICILLUM. PENNA. 487. name inscribed over them, they ap-pear as old men with their headsveiled, like a priest when officiatingat the sacrifice. PENICILLUM or -US (probablypa€8iov. Clearch. ap. Athen. xv. 35.).A painters brush orpencil for laying onthe colour (Cic. Quint, ii. ) ; some of whichwere made of hair(Plin. H. N. ), and others ofthe long pointed fi-bres of a sponge(Plin. H. N. ix. 69.). The illustra-tion represents part of a female figurein a Roman bas-relief, presenting apaint-brush to M. Varro, in allusionto one of his works, which he illus-trated with the portraits of celebratedmen, The true meaning of theGreek word bracketted as synony-mous admits of doubt, and has re-ceived various interpretations ; but,as it is applied to Parrhasius in aparagraph treating of the effects ofcolour, which even in some of theencaustic processes was laid on in aliquid state with a brush (see En-caustica), it is highly probable thatthe right meaning is alleged. PENICULAMENTUM. Theend or poi
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