. 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. ho give it a character very similarto the preceding specimen, with theexception that the iron just under thehead was enveloped in tow steeped inpitch or other inflammable materials,which was ignited before the weaponwas discharged. FALCARIUS. A maker ofscythes and sickles (falces). i. 4. Id. Sull. 18.
. 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. ho give it a character very similarto the preceding specimen, with theexception that the iron just under thehead was enveloped in tow steeped inpitch or other inflammable materials,which was ignited before the weaponwas discharged. FALCARIUS. A maker ofscythes and sickles (falces). i. 4. Id. Sull. 18. FALC ANTRUM. An instrumentemployed in husbandry for clearingaway any thick overgrowth of weedsand bushes; consisting of the bladeof a sickle (falx) affixed to a longstraight handle (Isidor. Orig. xx. ), similar to what is still used forthe same object amongst was probably only a provincialterm in use amongst the labouringpopulation ; for educated people andthe agricultural writers used Runco. FALCATUS ($Pewav7i6pos).Furnished with scythes ; as, currusfalcatus (see Currus, 5.): or, likea sickle; as, ensis falcatus. SeeFalx, 6. FALCICULA. Diminutive ofFalx. Pallad. i. 43. 3. FAL/CIFER. Bearing a scytheor a sickle ; both of which imple- FALCIGER. FALX. 273. merits were emblematically ascribed bypoets and artists to old Saturnus, inallusion tobis havingfirst intro-duced agri-culture intoItaly, or tohis mythicalcharacter, asthe personi-fication of Time (Cronos, Kpovos), Ithe destrover of all things. (Ovid, Ilb. 216. Macrob. Sat L 7. and 8.) |The latter is introduced in the illus- Itration, as of less common occurrence, !from a medal struck in honour of IHeliogabalus. FAL CIGER. Same as Eel. de Fer. Bom. 36. FALCULA (ppewdviov). Dimin- Iutive of Falx. Cato, JR. R% xi. xii. IS. 2. FALERE. An architecturalterm employed by Varro (R. R. 14. and 16.), of doubtful signifi-cation, but conjectured to mean a lowwall of masonry constructed
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