. 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. ENDROMIS. EPHIPPIATUS. 259 has a very different meaning, beingemployed to designate the boots ori-ginally invented and worn by the. Cretan huntsmen (Nonn. Dionys. 154.), and thence adopted by theGreek artists as the characteristicchaussure of Diana in her quality ofa huntress. (Callim. Hymn, in
. 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. ENDROMIS. EPHIPPIATUS. 259 has a very different meaning, beingemployed to designate the boots ori-ginally invented and worn by the. Cretan huntsmen (Nonn. Dionys. 154.), and thence adopted by theGreek artists as the characteristicchaussure of Diana in her quality ofa huntress. (Callim. Hymn, in Jul. Pollux, Tii. 93.) Conse-quently, they are seen on a greatnumber of statues of that goddess, onwhich they appear like the examplein the annexed illustration, from abronze of Herculaneum, with thetoes exposed, and a broad band justabove them (fascia primos sistitur addigitos, Sidon. Apoll. Carm. ii. 400.),to which the two side leathers areattached. These open down thefront, but are pierced with holes ontheir edges, for the thong to passthrough which binds them on thelegs, in the same manner as with ourlace-up boots (Galen. Comment, inHippocr. de ArticuL and Spanheimad Callim. ) The cross laces,which are omitted in our bronze,may be seen on other statues. ( tav. 17. Mus. 15. iii. 38.) The Latin poets al-ways dress Diana in cothurni, whichwere close boots, enveloping thewhole f
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