. 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. any extent, by making amould (forma) upon them, and taking\ casts (ectypa) from it; but the readingj of the passage is not altogether cer-tain, and some editors adopt Pros-I typum in its stead. PROVOCATORES. A class ofgladiators respecting whom nothingdefinite is known, excepting that they! usually engaged wi
. 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. any extent, by making amould (forma) upon them, and taking\ casts (ectypa) from it; but the readingj of the passage is not altogether cer-tain, and some editors adopt Pros-I typum in its stead. PROVOCATORES. A class ofgladiators respecting whom nothingdefinite is known, excepting that they! usually engaged with the Samnites.[ Cic. Sext. 64. Inscript. ap. Orelli,2566. PSALTERIUM (^aXriipiov). Apsaltery, that is, a stringed instrument; (Varro, ap, Non. s. Nervi, p. Virg. Ciris, 179.), of mixed cha-racter, between the cithara and theharpa, to both of which it possessedcertain points of affinity—to theformer in having a hollow soundingbelly formed of wood, over whichthe chords were stretched, butwhich, instead of being held down-wards in the act of playing, as wasusual with the cithara (see the wood- PSALTERIUM. PSETJDISOBOMTJM. 533 cut s. v.), -was carried upwards on theshoulder, so as to constitute the toprather than the bottom of the instru-ment (Isidor. Orig. iii. 21. 7. Cas-. siod. in Psalm. 150. August, in Psalm,56.); and to the latter, in having abent frame which kept the stringsextended from its centre, so that thefigure presented by the three parts,the strings, belly, and trunk, approxi-mated to the form of a bow, ifthe juncture of the belly and trunkpossessed a circular conformation, asin the engraving ; or of a triangle, ifthe juncture was an angular one, asis the case with an original specimenof the same instrument, now preservedin the Paris collection of Egyptainantiquities. This account, collectedfrom the different passages quotedabove, with the assistance of thefigures in the illustration, seems toleave no doubt respecting the identityof the instrument. The lower
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