. 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. ing-master (Varro s 2 500 PHRYGIO. PICTURA. Non. s. Suscitabuhmi. Suet. Nero,25.); or as a master- of elocution.(Suet. Aug. 84. Quint, ii. 8. 15. 19.) 2. In later times the leader of achorus or band of singers (Sidon. 11.), for which the proper word isPrecentor. PHRYGIO. An embroiderer, forw
. 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. ing-master (Varro s 2 500 PHRYGIO. PICTURA. Non. s. Suscitabuhmi. Suet. Nero,25.); or as a master- of elocution.(Suet. Aug. 84. Quint, ii. 8. 15. 19.) 2. In later times the leader of achorus or band of singers (Sidon. 11.), for which the proper word isPrecentor. PHRYGIO. An embroiderer, forwhich art the Phrygians were muchrenowned. Plaut. Aul. iii. 5. ii. 3. 77. Serv. ad Virg. 484. PHRYGIONIUS. H. N. viii. 74. PHYLACA (QvXtudi). iii. 5. 93. A prison or placeof custody; it is only a Greek wordLatinized. See Carcer and Er- GASTULUM. PICTOR (ypacpevs). A painter orartist who exercises any branch of thepictorial art. (Cic. Acad. iv. 7. P. 9.) The illustration representsa portrait painter taking the likenessof a person who is sitting before him,from a design on the walls of a houseat Pompeii, which, though a palpablecaricature, affords a very good ideaof the interior of a Roman artistsstudio. He sits upon a low stool in. front of his easel, with a tray ofcolours beside him, and a pot ofwater to cleanse the only brush heuses ; both which circumstances indi-cate an artist in water-colours, or inthat style of encaustic painting inwhich the colours were laid on witha liquid brush (see Encaustica).Fronting him is the sitter, and behind,at the further end of the room, apupil drawing on his board; whiletwo assistants are engaged on theright in preparing the colours, pro-bably mixed with wax, in a shallow pan placed over some hot coals, afurther indication of the encausticprocess. The heated coals, observablein the original, are lost in our en-graving, from the inadvertence of thedraughtsman, or in consequence ofthe very red
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