. 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. it pen-dant, as seen on the right side of thefigure s. Contabulatio. CORSiE. Fillets or mouldingsemployed to decorate the externalface of a marble door-post. ( 6.) See the illustration s. Ante- PAGMENTUM. CORTFNA. A deep circularvessel, or caldron, employed for boil-ing meat, meltingpitch (Plin.
. 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. it pen-dant, as seen on the right side of thefigure s. Contabulatio. CORSiE. Fillets or mouldingsemployed to decorate the externalface of a marble door-post. ( 6.) See the illustration s. Ante- PAGMENTUM. CORTFNA. A deep circularvessel, or caldron, employed for boil-ing meat, meltingpitch (Plin. 22.), makingpaint (Id. ), and a vari-ety of other pur-poses, for whichits form and cha-racter rendered it convenient, andwhich, when placed over the fire,was either raised upon a trivet, orsupported upon large stones putunder it. (Plin. xxxvi. 65.)The example is copied from a bronzeoriginal found at Pompeii. 2. (oK/jlos, kvk\os, emdnfia rov rpi-ttoSos). The lid or covering placedover the caldronor hollow part ofthe Delphic tri-pod (Virg. 347. 506. tripo-das cortina tegit,Jul. Pollux, ), upon whichthe priestess satto receive the di-vine afflatus, and pronounce her re-sponses. It had the form of a halfglobe, and is frequently represented.
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