School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ?LOKIOA, LUCERNA. LUCERNA. 233. IjORICA as worn by a ROMAN EMPEROR. Among the Asiatic nations the cuirasswas frequently made of cotton, and amongthe Sarmatians and other northern nationsof horn. LOTS. [SORTES.] LUCAR: [HisTRo.] LUCERES. [Tribus.] LUCERNA (\vxvos) an oil lamp. TheGreeks and Romans originally used can-dles ; but in later times candles were chieflyconfined to the houses of the lower classes.[Candela.] a great number of ancientlamps has come down to us; the greaterpart of which are made of terra cotta, butalso a considerable numbe
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ?LOKIOA, LUCERNA. LUCERNA. 233. IjORICA as worn by a ROMAN EMPEROR. Among the Asiatic nations the cuirasswas frequently made of cotton, and amongthe Sarmatians and other northern nationsof horn. LOTS. [SORTES.] LUCAR: [HisTRo.] LUCERES. [Tribus.] LUCERNA (\vxvos) an oil lamp. TheGreeks and Romans originally used can-dles ; but in later times candles were chieflyconfined to the houses of the lower classes.[Candela.] a great number of ancientlamps has come down to us; the greaterpart of which are made of terra cotta, butalso a considerable number of of the lamps are of an oval form, andflat upon the top, on which there are fre-quently figures in relief. In the lampsthere are one or more round holes, accord-ing to the number of wicks {ellychnia) LORICA AS WORN BY A OREEK WARRIOR. burnt in it; and as these holes were calledfrom an obvious analogy, fjLVKTrjpes or fiv^ai,literally nostrils or nozzles, the lamp wasalso called Monomyxos, Dimyxos, Trimyxos,or Polymyxos, according as it containedone, two, three, o
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