. 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. ice of several Ro-man magistrates, the consuls, prse-tors, and governors of provinces.(Varro, vii. 58. Liv. iii. 33.)He was generally the freedman ofthe person whom he served ( Q. Fr. i. 1. 4.), and it was his dutyto summon the people to the assem-blies, to call the parties engaged inlaw-suits into
. 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. ice of several Ro-man magistrates, the consuls, prse-tors, and governors of provinces.(Varro, vii. 58. Liv. iii. 33.)He was generally the freedman ofthe person whom he served ( Q. Fr. i. 1. 4.), and it was his dutyto summon the people to the assem-blies, to call the parties engaged inlaw-suits into court, and preserveorder in it (Cic. I. c. 7.), and to pro-claim the hour at sunrise, mid-day,and sunset. Plin. vii. 60. 2. The military Accensi wereoriginally a body of supernumerariesenlisted for the purpose of supplyingany vacancies which might occur inthe legions by death or otherwise(Festus s. v. Adcensi), but subse-quently they were formed into a sepa-rate corps, belonging to the levis arma-tura, or light-armed troops, amongstwhom they occupied the lowestrank of all. They were selected fromthe fifth class of the Servian census(Liv. i. 43.), had no body armournor weapons of attack, properly socalled, but fought, as they best could,with nothing but their fists and stones. (pugniset lapidibusdepugnabant, Varroap. Non. s. Decurtones, p. 520. Mercer),precisely as shown in the annexed 6 ACC1NCTUS. ACCUBO. figure, which is copied from the Co-lumn of Trajan. On the battle-fieldthey were posted in the rear of thewhole army, being drawn up in thelast line of all, behind the Rorarii,from whence they could be advancedto assist in desultory attacks as occa-sion required. Liv. viii. 8 and 10. ACCINCTUS. In a general sense,girded, equipped, or provided withanything. But the word is more es-pecially applied to the military, andthen implies that the soldier has hissword girded on, or, in other words,that he is accoutred as a soldier onduty ought to be ; like the right-handfigure in
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