. 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. pavements of their roads and streets(Stat. Sylv. iv. 3. 48.), as shown bythe annexed engraving, represent-ing a part of the road and pavementat the entrance to Pompeii. Thesestones are not only shaped like awedge, to produce lateral pressure,but are much longer than the otherones, and are formed with projecti
. 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. pavements of their roads and streets(Stat. Sylv. iv. 3. 48.), as shown bythe annexed engraving, represent-ing a part of the road and pavementat the entrance to Pompeii. Thesestones are not only shaped like awedge, to produce lateral pressure,but are much longer than the otherones, and are formed with projectingheads, so that they also prevent therest from rising upwards out of thelevel. GRABATULUS. Diminutive ofGrabatus. Apul. Met. 1. , 9. 12. GRABATUS (KPd€arus or kP<x€-€utos). A small low couch or bed ofthe commonest description (Cic. 63. Virg. Moret. 5.), such as wasused by poor people, having a merenetwork of cords stretched over the1 frame (Lucil. Sat. vi. 13. Gerlach. GEADILIS. GRADUS. 319 Pet. Sat 97- 4.), to support the mat-trass, precisely as represented by the. annexed engraving, from a terra-cottalamp. GRADFLIS. See Panis, 2. GRADUS. A set of bed-steps,consisting of several stairs (Varro, v. 168.), which were requisite step by which he entered the porch(Vitruv. iii. 4. 4.) ; the superstitionof the people leading them to think acontrary course ill-omened. 3. The seats upon which the spec-tators sat in a theatre, amphitheatre,or circus. (Inscript. ap. Marini. pp. 130. 23. Compare TesseraTheatralis.) These were deepsteps rising over one another in tiers,as shown by the annexed view fromthe larger theatre at Pompeii, inwhich the seats (gradus) are the
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