. 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. instrument employed in drawing offthe water, when suppressed, from thebladder, into which it is Aurel. Tard. ii. 1. n. 13.) Theexample is from an original, nineinches long, discovered at Pompeii. CATILLUS and small dish of the same form andcharacter as the catinus, but of lesscapacit
. 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. instrument employed in drawing offthe water, when suppressed, from thebladder, into which it is Aurel. Tard. ii. 1. n. 13.) Theexample is from an original, nineinches long, discovered at Pompeii. CATILLUS and small dish of the same form andcharacter as the catinus, but of lesscapacity, and possibly of inferiormanufacture. Columell. xii. 57. Max. iv. 3. 5. 2. (pvos). The upper or outer ofthe two stones in a mill for grindingcorn (Paul. Dig. 33. 7. 18. § 5.), whichserved as a hopper or bowl into whichthe corn was poured ; whence the annexed illustration represents aRoman mill now remaining at Pom-peii, with a section on the left upper part or basin is the ca~tillus, into which the unground corn CATINUM. CATOMIDIO. 135 was put; it was then turned roundby slaves or animals, and as it turned,. the ears of corn gradually subsidedthrough a hole at its bottom on tothe conical or bell-shaped stoneunderneath (see the section), betweenwhich and the inner surface of itscap, they were ground into flour. 3. An ornament employed in de-corating the scabbard of a sword(Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 54.), which issupposed to have been in the form ofa round silver plate or stud, similarto those seen on the sheath of thesword inserted under Capulus ; butthe reading of the passage, as wellas the meaning of it, if correct, isuncertain. CATINUM or CATINUS. Adeep sort of dish, in which vege-tables, fish, andpoultry werebrought to table.(Hor. Sat. i. Ib. ii. 4. 77. Ib. i. 3. 92.) Theillustration, which is copied from aseries of ancient fresco paintings dis-covered near the church of St. Johnin Lateran, at Rome (Cassini, PittureAnticki, tav. 4.), representing
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