. 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. PELLUVIA. PELTASTA. 485 amongst the northern nations, theGreeks of the heroic ages, and Ro-mans of primitive times,and which continuedin use at a subsequentperiod for the peasan-try, and others sub-jected to the exposureof a country life, suchas hunters, fowlers,&c (Liv. xxiii. Pont. iv. 8. iv
. 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. PELLUVIA. PELTASTA. 485 amongst the northern nations, theGreeks of the heroic ages, and Ro-mans of primitive times,and which continuedin use at a subsequentperiod for the peasan-try, and others sub-jected to the exposureof a country life, suchas hunters, fowlers,&c (Liv. xxiii. Pont. iv. 8. iv. 1. 11.) Cloth-ing of this nature isfrequently met with onworks of art in the form of an ex-omis; but the annexed figure, repre-senting a fowler from a statue atNaples, wears a tunic, with an amic-tus over it, both made of fur. PELLUVIA or -UM (votavm-ri]p). A foot-pan, or basin forwashing the feet in, as opposed tomalluvium, a basin for washing thehands. (Festus, s. v.) The illus-tration, from a Pompeian painting,. of the female figures in the followingpage ; but more commonly truncated
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