. 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 of thebody, and finally the whole proces-sion was closed by the empty car-riage of the dead man, which broughtup the rear in the same way as is stillcustomary amongst ourselves. All,or nearly all, of these particulars are EXTISPEX. FABRILIA. 271 exhibited in the order above statedupon a bas-relief, on a R
. 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 of thebody, and finally the whole proces-sion was closed by the empty car-riage of the dead man, which broughtup the rear in the same way as is stillcustomary amongst ourselves. All,or nearly all, of these particulars are EXTISPEX. FABRILIA. 271 exhibited in the order above statedupon a bas-relief, on a Roman sarco-phagus, representing the funeral ofMeleager ; a device which would beappropriately selected for a personwho during his life-time had beenaddicted to the chase and sports ofthe field. It is engraved by Bartoli(Admirand. Rom. plates 70. and 71.),and several figures have been selectedfrom it to illustrate the differentwords bracketed in this article; butthe entire subject contains too manyfigures to bear a reduction propor-tionable to the size of these pages. EX TISPEX (JiTraTO(rK6iros, airXayx-vogkottos). A soothsayer, or divi-ner who affected to interpret the willof the gods, and the results of futu-rity, by inspecting the entrails ofvictims slain at the altar (Cic. ii. IS.), as shown by the annexedillustration, from a bas-relief of theVilla Borghese, the only ancient re-presentation of this practice yet dis-covered. EXTISPICIUM (viraroaKomcL).An inspection of the entrails of ani-mals for the purpose of predictingevents from their appearance; asrepresented in the preceding engrav-ing. Accius, ap. Non. p. 16. SuetNero. 56. FABATARIUM. A large bowlor dish in which beans, or bean-flour, made into a stir-about (puis fabacia,Macrob. Sat i. 12.) was served Heliog. 20. FABER (t4ktccv). The namegiven indiscriminately to any artizanor mechanic who works in hardmaterials, such as wood, stone, metal,&c, in contradistinction to one whomoulds or models in soft su
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