. 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. the hydraletes was verysimilar in operation to the commonwater-wheel (rota aquaria); a largewheel furnished with float boards(pinnce), which turned it with thecurrent, and thus acted upon a cog-wheel attached to its axle, by meansof which the mill-stone was driven,as explained s. Mola. HYDRAULA and HYDRAU-LES
. 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. the hydraletes was verysimilar in operation to the commonwater-wheel (rota aquaria); a largewheel furnished with float boards(pinnce), which turned it with thecurrent, and thus acted upon a cog-wheel attached to its axle, by meansof which the mill-stone was driven,as explained s. Mola. HYDRAULA and HYDRAU-LES (vdpavArjs). One who singsor recites to an accompaniment uponthe hydraulic organ. Pet. Sat Suet. Nero, 54. HYDRAULUS (VdpavXos or -is).A water organ (Cic. Tusc. iii. H. N. ix. 8. Vitruv. x. 13.) ;in which the action of water wasmade to produce the same effectupon the bellows as is now procuredby a heavy weight. The instrumentis rudely indicated by the annexedengraving, from a contorniate coin ofthe Emperor Nero; and in the col-lection of antiquities bequeathed tothe Vatican by Christina of Sweden, 342 HYDR1A. HYPERTHYRUM. there is a medal of Valentinian,which has a representation of a similarinstrument on the reverse, accompa-nied by two figures, one on each side,. who seem to pump the water whichworks it It has only eight pipes, isplaced upon a round pedestal, and,like the present example, affordsno indication of keys, nor of anyperson performing upon it; whenceit has been inferred that these organswere only played by mechanism. HYDRIA (u5p/a). A water pail,or water can for holding ^ ^ ,-e-clean water ; more es- ]=3|g=^pecially used to desig- j y 1nate such as were ofa superior description \ jj(Cic. Verr. iii. 19.), of V 0bronze or silver, and \ /of costly workmanship, ™like the annexed example, from aPompeian original. 2. In a more general sense, anykind of vessel for holding water;whence also used for the urn filledwith water from which the names ofthe trib
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