. 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. composed of different materials fromthe internal part of it; viz. of regu-larly laid bricks or ashlar outside anirregular mass of rubble (fartura),as in the annexed specimen of Ro-man building. Vitruv. ii. 8. 4. OSCILLA/fnO (aid>pa). A swing,or game at swinging (Pet. Sat. Fab. 130. Festus s. Osc
. 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. composed of different materials fromthe internal part of it; viz. of regu-larly laid bricks or ashlar outside anirregular mass of rubble (fartura),as in the annexed specimen of Ro-man building. Vitruv. ii. 8. 4. OSCILLA/fnO (aid>pa). A swing,or game at swinging (Pet. Sat. Fab. 130. Festus s. ad Virg. Georg. ii. 389.); afavourite amusement with the an-. contains another figure standing onthe ground behind the swing, withher arms extended, in the attitude ofone who has just pushed the swingforward, and awaits its return, torepeat the operation. OSCILLUM. Diminutive of Os ja. small mask or image of the face ;more especially of Bacchus, whichthe country people suspended in avineyard in such a manner that themask turned round and fronted dif-ferent directions, as it was impelledby the action of the wind; it being acurrent belief that the district became
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