. 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. of Italo-Greekmanufacture. SUBMINIA. A garment men-tioned by Plautus (Epid. ii. 2. 48.)in a catalogue of female apparel. Pro-| bably, only a name in vogue at hisday, descriptive of a reddish tint(minium) with which it was dyed. SUBSCUS. A tenon, in car-pentry, joinery, &c. ; that is, the endof a piece of wood
. 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. of Italo-Greekmanufacture. SUBMINIA. A garment men-tioned by Plautus (Epid. ii. 2. 48.)in a catalogue of female apparel. Pro-| bably, only a name in vogue at hisday, descriptive of a reddish tint(minium) with which it was dyed. SUBSCUS. A tenon, in car-pentry, joinery, &c. ; that is, the endof a piece of wood or metal cut ormoulded into a certain form, to bereceived into a hole of correspondingj size and shape, called a mortise (se~I curicula), for the joining of both to-gether. Vitruv. x. 5. 2. Id. iv. 7. 4.| SUBSELLIUM. A moveablej bench or form supported upon legs,but without any back, and of suffi-! cient length to contain several per-I sons upon it at the same time (Cel-I sus, vii. 26. 1. Varro, L. L. ) ; especially used in placeswhere a number of people are assem-bled together; in a dining-room(Suet. Terent.); auction-room ( 39.) ; senate-house (Cic. Cat Suet. Claud. 23.) ; for the judges,lawyers, suitors, and witnesses in acourt of justice. (Cic. Vat. Rose. Am. 6.) The example is froman original of bronze found in thebaths of Pompeii. 2. In the theatre, amphitheatre, orcircus (Plaut. Amph. Prol 65. , Prol. 5. Suet. Aug. 43. and44.), a line of seats encircling theinterior of the edifice (cavea), andrising in tiers or steps one over theother, as explained and illustrateds. Gradus, 3. SUBSTRUCTIO (<Waw<0. Awall, pier, buttress, or any work oflike nature, constructed undergroundas a foundation (Vitruv. vi. 11. 5.) ;or above ground as an underprop tosupport a superincumbent structure(Liv. xxxviii. 28. Dionys. iii. 69.) ;such, for example, as the elder Tar-quin is reputed to have raised on the4 L 2 628 SUBTEMEN. SUCCINCTUS. Capitoiine hill, for
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