. 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. 6.), where it served the double pur-pose of use and ornament, beingweighted withlead inside,so that it keptthe ends downin a gracefuland steady po-sition. It isseen upon eachcorner of theside slit in thetunic worn bythe annexed fi-gure, from anequestrian statue of N. Balbus dis-covered at Herculaneum; upon th
. 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. 6.), where it served the double pur-pose of use and ornament, beingweighted withlead inside,so that it keptthe ends downin a gracefuland steady po-sition. It isseen upon eachcorner of theside slit in thetunic worn bythe annexed fi-gure, from anequestrian statue of N. Balbus dis-covered at Herculaneum; upon thepallium, in the first illustration to thatword; upon the chlamys, at pp. 154,155. 178. ; upon the toga of theEtruscan figure, with the right armextended, s. Toga, though it is lostin our engraving from the reducedsize of the drawing; and on thoseof the figures in Mus. Borb. vi. Pio-Clem. iii. 19. v. 32. andmany other statues. Now as the laci-nia always depended from the extremecorner of the skirt, it will be readilyunderstood how it came to signify-in general language the angular ex-tremity of the dress itself; whichsometimes hung down near theground, and sometimes was taken upand thrown over the shoulder (Ana-bolium), so that one person catchesanother by the lacinia, to
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