. 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. play ofmuscular power exhibited in the atti-tudes, and the animal beauty in re-spect of bodily form which distin-guishes the performers, that theancient Italians, or the Greek artistesemployed by them, far excelled, inprofessional dexterity and graceful-ness (its most essential requisite), thedancers of the o
. 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. play ofmuscular power exhibited in the atti-tudes, and the animal beauty in re-spect of bodily form which distin-guishes the performers, that theancient Italians, or the Greek artistesemployed by them, far excelled, inprofessional dexterity and graceful-ness (its most essential requisite), thedancers of the operatic ballet inmodern times. PANUCEL/LIUM. This wordis written in seven different ways ; asuncertain as the meaning attached toit. Some suppose it to mean a spoolor bobbin; others, a shuttle with thebobbin inserted, like the example Varro, L. L. v. Isidor. Orig. xxix. 7. PAPIL/IO. In its primary sense,a butterfly; whence the name wastransferred to a mi-litary tent, eitherbecause the cur-tains with which itwas closed in front,when set open, werefastened up at thesides in such amanner as to presentan appearance likethe wings of a but-terfly, as observablein the annexed ex-ample, from the co-lumn of Trajan ; or, possibly, be-cause it was made of richer mate-. rials and more varied colours thanthe common tent {tentorium). Lam-prid. Alex. Sev. 51. Spart. Veg. Mil i. 3. PARADA. Believed to be aGaulish word, indicating either anawning over the deck of a vessel ;or, which seems more probable, aprivate and state cabin for the use ofpersons of wealth or Ep. v. 27. Sidon. Ep. viii. Areheoloqie Navale, vol. ii. p. 362. PARAGAUDA or PARAGAU-DIS. An ornamental band of gold,or of colouredsilk decoratedwith golden em-broidery, sewnon to the tunic ;whence the gar-ment itself sodecorated is alsodesignated bythe same appears toI have been afashion intro-duced under theempire, as a sortI of substitute for the more ancientclav
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