. 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. inutive ofCloaca ; a branch sewer commu-nicating with the main duct Lam-prid. Heliog. 17. CLOSTEL/LUM. Diminutive ofClostrum. Either the key-hole ofa lock ; or, perhaps, the box-haspinto which the bolt of a lock shoots ;and which would leave a crevicebetween itself and a door which didnot fit close, so that a
. 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. inutive ofCloaca ; a branch sewer commu-nicating with the main duct Lam-prid. Heliog. 17. CLOSTEL/LUM. Diminutive ofClostrum. Either the key-hole ofa lock ; or, perhaps, the box-haspinto which the bolt of a lock shoots ;and which would leave a crevicebetween itself and a door which didnot fit close, so that a person mightsee through it, as mentioned by Pe-tronius, Sat. 140. 11. Compare vii. 21. CLOSTRUM. For a general sense, any fastening likea lock (Cato, xiii. 3. Id. ) ; but, more definitively, the boxinto which a lock shoots, vii. 21. CLUDEN. A sword used byactors upon the Roman stage, theblade of which receded into thehandle immediately upon meetingwith any resistance, and so producedthe effect of stabbing without danger.(Apul. Apol p. 526.) A device ofthe same kind is resorted to by mo-dern actors; but the reading in Apu-leius is not certain, and the interpre-tation is conjectural. CLUNABULUM or CLUNAC-ULUM. A small sword, or rather. dagger, so called because it was 182 CLYSTER, COCHLEA. worn at the back, just over the but-tocks (dunes), as shown in the an-nexed example, from the Column ofTrajan. Aul. Gell. x. 25. xviii. 6. 6. 2. The same name was also givento the knife of the Cultrarius, withwhich he ripped upthe entrails of vic-tims at the sacri-fice (Festus, s. v.);and which wascarried in the samemanner by a strapround the loins, asshown by the an-nexed figure, repre-senting one of theseservants, from aPompeian painting. CLYSTER (K\v<rrhp).especially such as was used for in-jecting fluids into the body. 44. Plin. xxxi. 33. CLYSTERIUM (K\v<rriipiov).Diminutive of the preceding.
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