. 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. ofthe tEdituus, s. v. 9. A cane rod for Psych. 826. 10. A stick or cudgel made ofcane. Pet. Sat. 134. 4.; but this isprobably the same as No. 8. 11. An espalier of canes for train-ing vines. Varro, B. B. i. 8. 2. ARX (d/cpo7roAts). The fortressor citadel of an ancient town. Thesewere always
. 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. ofthe tEdituus, s. v. 9. A cane rod for Psych. 826. 10. A stick or cudgel made ofcane. Pet. Sat. 134. 4.; but this isprobably the same as No. 8. 11. An espalier of canes for train-ing vines. Varro, B. B. i. 8. 2. ARX (d/cpo7roAts). The fortressor citadel of an ancient town. Thesewere always formed upon the top ofa steep hill, or an abrupt and pre-cipitous rock, rising out of thegeneral level of the plain upon whichthe habitable parts of the city were built. They required, therefore, butlittle artificial fortification, in additionto the natural difficulties of the site,beyond that of a wall at the top, and ofa gate and tower to command the prin-cipal access. Many of these citadelsare still to be traced in various partsof Greece and Italy, all of which areconstructed in the manner are not fortified upon any regu-lar plan, nor have they any preciseshape, but merely follow the outlineof the summit on which they illustration here inserted is from. a sketch of the Acropolis at Athens,as it now remains, with some columnsof the temple of Jupiter Olympius inthe plain below, which will serve toconvey a general notion of the com-mon appearance of these the Arx of Rome, it containsthe principal temples of the deitieswho presided over the city, whichwere placed within the enclosure forthe sake of protection. 2. Of the Arx at Rome no positivetraces now remain, the site uponwhich it formerly stood being en-tirely covered with modern occupied, however, the mostnorthern and lofty of the twosummits into which the crown of theCapitoline hill was divided, facingtoward the Via Flaminia and MonsEsquilinus, and upon the area ofwhich
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