. 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. oublepipes (tibia pares) while he beatstime upon an instrument similar tothe one engraved above; a marblesarcophagus published by Visconti(Mus. Pio Clem, v tav. C.) exhibits 576 SCABELLUM. SCAL^E. a female playing the Phrygian pipes(tibia Phrygia) and beating time upona similar instrument; and a femalestatue
. 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. oublepipes (tibia pares) while he beatstime upon an instrument similar tothe one engraved above; a marblesarcophagus published by Visconti(Mus. Pio Clem, v tav. C.) exhibits 576 SCABELLUM. SCAL^E. a female playing the Phrygian pipes(tibia Phrygia) and beating time upona similar instrument; and a femalestatue of the Capitol (Mus. Capito-lin. iii. 36.) has the same contrivanceunder her foot. SCALiE (K\). A ladder; ormachine for ascending (from scando),but used in theplural because itwas composedby a number ofseparate steps,arranged oneover anotherand between twouprights, in thesame manner aspractised at thepresent day.(Sail. Plin. , Ov. Virg.)The illustrationrepresents one of the Roman soldiersin Trajans army carrying a scalingladder for the assault of a Dacianfortress. 2. A ships ladder, of the same con-struction, but carried on board, andlet down from the sides of the vesselwhen required for the convenience ofembarkation or disembarkation, asin the annexed example from an.
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