. 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. ample, from a paint-ing of Pompeii. The later writers de-signated this circle by the same term(Serv. ad Virg. JEn. ii. 615. iii. Orig. xxix. 31. 2.) ; and itformed the original of the ghry oraureole round the heads of Chris-tian saints. Most writers ascribethe use of the nimbus and glory, asnow ex
. 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. ample, from a paint-ing of Pompeii. The later writers de-signated this circle by the same term(Serv. ad Virg. JEn. ii. 615. iii. Orig. xxix. 31. 2.) ; and itformed the original of the ghry oraureole round the heads of Chris-tian saints. Most writers ascribethe use of the nimbus and glory, asnow explained, to the Greek fi-qvlaKos,which was a circular disk of metalplaced horizontally over the head ofa statue in the open air, to protect itfrom the weather and bird stains(Aristoph. Av. 1114.) ; an object ofundoubted utility in actual use, butscarcely appropriate, considering theassociation of ideas connected withit, to be adopted as an ornament for agod or a saint. 3. A linen band, ornamented withgold embroidery, and worn by fe-males across theforehead (Isi-dor. Orig. 2. 72 ComparePlaut. Poen. 138.), in or-der to contractits size, whichproduces a morejuvenile appearance (compare 126. \b. frons minima, as a markof beauty) ; for a high forehead is. NIVARIUS. NODUS. 445 the attribute of age, which bares thetemples, not of youth. 4. Nimbus vitreus. A vessel ofglass, supposed to be used for coolingwine ; and so termed, because, whenfilled with snow, the steam on theglass gave the appearance of a mist,or the contents of a fleecy xiv. 112. NIVARIUS. See Colum, 2. andSaccus, 3. NODUS. A knot; by which cer-tain articles of apparel were tied onthe top of theshoulder, insteadof being fastenedwith a brooch{fibula. vi. 301.).The example re-presents two Ro-man soldiers intheir militarycloaks, the one onthe left fastenedby a nodus, theother with a fi-bula, from a group on the Column ofTrajan. The rustic at p. 429. play-ing the monaulos,
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