. 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. a lighted torchto seek for her daughter ad Verum Imp. Ep. 1. In-script. ap. Fabretti, p. 676. n. 29. DAEMON (5oiV«y). Properly, aGreek word, signifying a good spirit,who was supposed to preside overevery individual during his life time ;translated by the Latin words Larand Genius ; which se
. 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. a lighted torchto seek for her daughter ad Verum Imp. Ep. 1. In-script. ap. Fabretti, p. 676. n. 29. DAEMON (5oiV«y). Properly, aGreek word, signifying a good spirit,who was supposed to preside overevery individual during his life time ;translated by the Latin words Larand Genius ; which see. Socrat. p. 674. Cic. Univers. 11. 2. By the ecclesiastical writers ofthe Christian era, always in thesense of an evil spirit, or devil. Lac- tant. ii. 14. Tertull. Apol. 22. D^MONIUM (Jbaifriviov). Di-minutive of Daemon ; and, like that word, employed by the heathen writers to signify a good spirit; by the Christians for an evil one. Cic. Div. i. 24. Tertull. Apol. 21. DALMATICATUS. Wearing the Dalmatic robe, which was a long frock made of white Dalmatian wool. It reached as low as the feet, was decorated with purple stripes down the front, and had a pair of very long and loose sleeves, which covered the whole arm as far as the wrists. It was not worn by the Romans in. PARDANARIUS. DECEMJUGIS. 233 early times, and never, perhaps, came iinto general use; but was alwaysregarded as a mark of singularity orluxurious habits, even at a late pe-riod of the Empire, until it came tobe adopted by the Roman Catholicclergy, under the early popes. (Isi-dor. Orig. xix. 22. 9. Lamprid. Corn-mod. 8. Id. Heliog. 26. and Alcuinus,De Divinis Officiis.) The illustra-tion, which corresponds exactly withthe above description from Origen, iscopied from one of the miniatures inthe Vatican Virgil, which are sup-posed to have been executed duringthe reign of Septimius Severus. DARDANARIUS. A regrateror monopolist, who buys and storesup any kind of raw or manufacturedproduce, with the object
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