. 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. gers over placesunknown to them, and points out theobjects most worthy of observation,especially at the temples. Cic. 4. 59. MYSTRUM (utarpov). A liquidmeasure of the Greeks, containingthe fourth part of a cyathus. 77. MYXA or MYXUS (/«J{a, (), A word borrowedfrom the Greek,signifyi
. 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. gers over placesunknown to them, and points out theobjects most worthy of observation,especially at the temples. Cic. 4. 59. MYSTRUM (utarpov). A liquidmeasure of the Greeks, containingthe fourth part of a cyathus. 77. MYXA or MYXUS (/«J{a, (), A word borrowedfrom the Greek,signifying lite-rally the hu-mour whichdischarges from the nostrils ; whenceit is applied in both languages to de-signate the nozzle of an oil lampthrough which the wick protrudes;as shown on the left side of the an-nexed example. Mart. xiv. 41. N. NABLIA and NAULIA (vdetoi,vavXa, and vavAov). A musical instru-ment of Phoenician origin accordingto AthenaBus (iv. 77 ), and doubtlessthe same as the Hebrew nevel, sooften mentionedin the Psalms,whence it cameto the Greeksand Romans. Itwas a stringed in-strument, havingten cords accord-ing to Sopater(Athen. I c), or twelve according toJosephus (Antiq. vii. 10.), was of asquare form (Schilte ad Kircher. Mu-surg. ii. p. 49.\ and was played with. NAN I. NAT AT 10. 439 both hands without the plectrum, butin the same manner as a harp.(Joseph. /. c. Ov. A. Am. iii. genialia naulia palma in Asterismo Lyra, p. 189.)Ovid mentions it as an instrument ofthe same class as the lyra and cithara,but distinct from both; particularlyadapted for use in social life and fes-tive occasions, and the study of whichhe recommends to all young femaleswho wish to gain admirers and culti-vate the art of pleasing. All theseparticulars agree so well with the in-strument and figure exhibited by theannexed woodcut, from a Pompeianpainting, as to make it extremelyprobable that it was intended to re-present the nevel, while at the sametime they
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