. 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. memory of persons orthings, such, for instance, as a sta-tue, a building, or a temple, particu-larly one on which the name of thefounder is inscribed. Cass. B. C. Cic. Verr. i. 4. Id. Div. i. 9. Ib. 28. 2. Monumentum sepulcri, or abso-lutely ; a monument, tomb, or sepul-chre, erected in memory of a dec
. 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. memory of persons orthings, such, for instance, as a sta-tue, a building, or a temple, particu-larly one on which the name of thefounder is inscribed. Cass. B. C. Cic. Verr. i. 4. Id. Div. i. 9. Ib. 28. 2. Monumentum sepulcri, or abso-lutely ; a monument, tomb, or sepul-chre, erected in memory of a deceasedperson, including both those inwhich the remains were actually de-posited (sepulcrum, strictly), andsuch as were merely erected to recordthe memory of any one apart fromthe place where his remains wereburied. (Florent. Dig. 11. 7. , s. v. Varro, L. L. vi. ad Cic. Fam. iv. 12. i. 8. 13. Nepos, Dion. 10.)These monuments were not allowedwithin the city walls, excepting in afew solitary instances, granted as anespecial distinction ; but were usuallyconstructed by the sides of the highroads in a long continuous line ofmagnificent elevation, forming astriking vista, suggestive of moraland noble sentiments to every passerby. The annexed illustration repre-. sents a range of tombs on each side of the way immediately outside ofthe gates of Pompeii, on the highroad to Herculaneum ; and will con-vey an idea of the imposing characterwhich the approach to ancient Romemust have possessed from the Appianway, on which the monuments of somany of her illustrious men, bothcivil and military, once stood. Theremains and ruins of these are stillvisible to the eye, in a continuousline along both sides of the desertedroad, for a distance of four or fivemiles from the city. 3. (yvcaplo-fjLCLTa). The toys or to-kens tied round the necks of infantswhen they were exposed as found-lings, in order that they might berecognized by any members of theirfamilies in after years, if
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