. 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. size, called tetradoron, about16 inches square, and from 18 to 20lines thick ; the smaller one placedover it, 7\ inches square, and 1± linesthick ; the small oblong square, onthe extreme right of the woodcut,called Lydius, is about \\ feet long,and half a foot broad; the triangularones are made of different s
. 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. size, called tetradoron, about16 inches square, and from 18 to 20lines thick ; the smaller one placedover it, 7\ inches square, and 1± linesthick ; the small oblong square, onthe extreme right of the woodcut,called Lydius, is about \\ feet long,and half a foot broad; the triangularones are made of different sizes, andform either an acute or a right-angled triangle ; the manner of usingthem may be seen at the top of p. iii. 2. 3. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 49. 2. Later crudus (ttXlvQos co/llt]). Abrick dried in the sun without beingbaked. Varro, R. R. i. 14. 4. N. xxxv. 49. 3. Later coctus or coctilis (tt\iv6gs07TT7?). A brick baked in the , R. R. i. 14. 4. 4. Later aureus, argenteus. An in-got, of gold or silver, in the shape ofa brick. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. x. 27. LATER ARI A. A brick-field-(Plin. H. N. vii. 57.) The example, LATERCULUS. LATRINA. 371 from a painting at Thebes in Egypt,represents an Egyptian brick-field,but shows exactly the same process. as still pursued; the men at thebottom are digging up the brickearth, and loading it in baskets, whilethe one at the top lays the bricksalready made in wooden moulds. LATEB/CULUS (ttAi^W). Di-minutive of Later ; a brick of smallerdimensions than the pentadoron ortetradoron; whence, any thing madein a rectangular form, like a smallbrick, as a piece of pastry. i. 2. 115. Cato, R. R. 109. LATERICIUS (vXivdivos). Builtof brick ; opus lateritium, brick ii. 8, 9. and 16. Columell. 4. See Paries. LATERNA or L ANTER/NA(IttvSs, (pdvos). A lantern; the trans-parent parts of whichwere made in earlytimes of horn orbladder, and subse-quently of glass.(Plaut. Amph. Mart xiv.
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