. 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. female, andmade by a Roman artist of the nameof Novius Plautius : — DINDIA . MACOLNIA . FILEA . DEDIT .NOVIOS. PLAVTIOS. MED. ROMAI. FECID. CISTELLA (WHs). A smallCista. Plaut. Cist iv. 1. 3. iv. 6. 15. CESTELLATRIX. A femaleslave, who bad charge of her mis-tresss clothes, trinkets, &c kept in acista
. 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. female, andmade by a Roman artist of the nameof Novius Plautius : — DINDIA . MACOLNIA . FILEA . DEDIT .NOVIOS. PLAVTIOS. MED. ROMAI. FECID. CISTELLA (WHs). A smallCista. Plaut. Cist iv. 1. 3. iv. 6. 15. CESTELLATRIX. A femaleslave, who bad charge of her mis-tresss clothes, trinkets, &c kept in acista. Plaut. Trin. ii. 1. 30. CISTELLULA. A very smallcista; diminutive of Cistella. ii. 3. 60. CISTER/NA. An artificial tankor reservoir, sunk in the ground, andfrequently covered in with a roof(Yarro, B. B. i. 11.), for the purposeof collecting and preserving goodwater for the use of a household.(Columell. i. 5. Pallad. i. 17.) Itdiffers from our cisterns, whichare above ground; and from a well (puteus), which is suppliedby springs. 2. Cisterna frigidaria. Perhapsan ice house. Pet. Sat. 73. 2. CISTIFER. One who carries acista, box, or burden ; a porter. Mart*Ep. v. 17. CISTOPHORUS (K«TTo<p6Pos).One who carried the mystic case(Cista, 5.) in certain religious pro-. cessions. In the rites of Ceres andBacchus, or of the Egyptian deities,Isis and Osiris, thisservice was performedby women, as repre-sented in the annexedillustration from aPompeian wreath of ivyleaves and berries (co-rymbus) round thehead, show her tohave been a followerof Bacchus ; and thebirds eye observableon the head of the jugindicates a priestess of Osiris, whosesymbol amongst the Egyptians wasan *eye (Winkelm. Cab. Stosch. ) ; and as Bacchus and Osiris werethe same deity, under different names,it is clear that she is a cistophora,and not a canephora, as the editors ofthe Museo Borbonico have errone-ously termed her, from want of at-tention to the above particulars. Inthe ceremonie
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