. 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. ltaneously, so thatthe two cars from the furthest endcame out first; and when they hadadvanced as far as the level of thetwo next (2. 2.), these were removed ;and the four cars continued theircourse until they had gained the lineof the next stall (3. 3.), when thethird barriers were slacked away ;and so on un
. 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. ltaneously, so thatthe two cars from the furthest endcame out first; and when they hadadvanced as far as the level of thetwo next (2. 2.), these were removed ;and the four cars continued theircourse until they had gained the lineof the next stall (3. 3.), when thethird barriers were slacked away ;and so on until the whole number arrived on a line with the point ofthe prow (b), from whence they allstarted together and abreast. ( c.) It is probable that a long linewas drawn entirely across the courseat this point, which answered thesame purpose as the Roman linea whole of this design will beclearly understood from the annexedplan of the Olympic hippodrome, assuggested by Visconti, to illustratethe description of Pausanias ; thoughconjectural, it possesses great seemingprobability to stamp it with a markof authority. At all events, it willserve to give a distinct idea of themore important features of a Greekhippodrome, and of the meaning ofthe terms by which each part was. designated, a. The space enclosedby the stalls already described, b,x x 338 HIPPOPERA. HOPLOMACHUS. The point or beak of the tixpeo-is,termed efi§o\ou by Pausanias. c. Thecolonnade((TToa) forming a terminationto the flat end of the hippodrome :perhaps this member was not alwaysadded. 1, 2, 3. The stalls for thehorses (oiK-n/jLara, carceres). d t>.The course (Bpofios). e. A barrier,which divides the course into twoparts, like the Roman spina, but moresimple, and less decorated, consistingof a plain bank of earth-(x^a), asmay be inferred from Pausanias ( 8.). f. The goal round whichthe chariots turned (yvacra, KCL^irriip,meta) ; there probably was a similarone at the opposite end of the spina
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