. 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. in its natural state and growth ; i. cut, nor artificially , crinis passus, dishevelled hair,which is left to hang down to its fulllength, as was usual with the womenof antiquity when afflicted with anygreat calamity (Liv. i. 13. and seethe illustration s. Pr^efic^:) ; crinissparsus, hair w
. 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. in its natural state and growth ; i. cut, nor artificially , crinis passus, dishevelled hair,which is left to hang down to its fulllength, as was usual with the womenof antiquity when afflicted with anygreat calamity (Liv. i. 13. and seethe illustration s. Pr^efic^:) ; crinissparsus, hair which streams wildlyfrom the head, characteristic of per-sons under violent exertions, or pos-sessed by any furious passion orimpulse. Ovid. Met. i. 542. and theillustration s. Baccha. CRINFTUS. Having long andflowing hair, which is suffered tohang down at its natural length, suchas the figures introduced s. Acerse-comes and Camillus. Ennius Acad. ii. 28. Mart. Bp. xii. 49. CRISTA (Ao>os). The crest of ahelmet; which was affixed to an ele-vated ridge (apex) on the top of thescull-cap. (Virg. JEn. xii, 89. 39. Plin. H. N. vii. 57.) Both theapex and crista are often includedunder the latter term ; but the realdifference between the two words is. that given. The illustration hereintroduced affords an example ofthree Roman helmets, with theircrests composed of feathers, from agroup originally belonging to theArch of Trajan, but now insertedon the Arch of Constantine, nearthe Coliseum. The Greek crestswere more usually made of horse-hair, with the entire tail fallingdown behind, as a protection to thenape of the neck and back, like theleft-hand figure in the following en-graving, from a fictile vase; and 216 CRISTATUS. CROTALIUM. they sometimes added as many asthree crests to one helmet, like the
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