. 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. lata, reticulated, which has a che-quered pattern, like the meshes of anet, a ; 2. ccementicia antiqua or in-carta, irregular masonry of stones,not squared nor cut into any certainform, b ; 3. isodomum, ashlar, of largestones, and in which all the courses are of the same height, c ; 4. pseud-isodomum, also as
. 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. lata, reticulated, which has a che-quered pattern, like the meshes of anet, a ; 2. ccementicia antiqua or in-carta, irregular masonry of stones,not squared nor cut into any certainform, b ; 3. isodomum, ashlar, of largestones, and in which all the courses are of the same height, c ; 4. pseud-isodomum, also ashlar, and of largestones, but in which the courses areof different relative heights, d ; , in which both the outsidesurfaces of the wall are formed ofashlar, e, bound together by girders,f, and the central part filled in withrubble, g ; 6. diamicton, which is thesame as the last, without the girders. STRUPPUS (rpoiros, rpOTccarnip).A twisted thong of leather, or cord,by which the oar is fastened to itsthowl (scalmus). (Vitruv. x. 3. | Liv. ap. Isidor. Orig. xix. 4. 9.)The contrivance is explained by theannexed wood-cut, which exhibits I the manner of fastening the oars inthe Mediterranean galleys of the16th century. 2. The thong of a palanquin (lec-tica), (Gracchus, ap. Gell. x. 3. 2.);by which the conveyance was at-tached to its carrying-pole (asser), asan oar is to its thowl. It was fas-tened down (deligatus) to the shafts I (atiiites), like the back-band of a
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