A dictionary of Greek and Roman . c ink, which is invisibletill heat, or some preparation be applied, appears tohave been not uncommon. So Ovid (Art. Am. , &c.) advises writing love-letters with freshmilk, which would be unreadable, until the letterswere sprinkled with coal-dust. Ausonius ( 21) gives the same direction. Pliny () suggests that the milky sap contained in someplants might be used in the same way. An inkstand (irv^iov, jxtXavdoxov, Pollux, , x. 59) was either single or double. The doubleinkstands were probably intended to contain bothbla
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . c ink, which is invisibletill heat, or some preparation be applied, appears tohave been not uncommon. So Ovid (Art. Am. , &c.) advises writing love-letters with freshmilk, which would be unreadable, until the letterswere sprinkled with coal-dust. Ausonius ( 21) gives the same direction. Pliny () suggests that the milky sap contained in someplants might be used in the same way. An inkstand (irv^iov, jxtXavdoxov, Pollux, , x. 59) was either single or double. The doubleinkstands were probably intended to contain bothblack and red ink, much in the modern were also of -sarious shapts, as for example, round or hexagonal. They had covers to keep thedust from the ink. The annexed cuts representinkstands found at Pompeii. [Calamus.] (Cane-parius, DeAtramentis cujusque Generis, Lond. 1660;Beckmann, History of Inventions, vol. i. p. 106,vol. ii. p. 266, London, 1846; Becker, Charikles)vol. ii. p. 222, &c, Gallus, vol. i. p. 166, &c.) [A. A.]. ATRIUM is used in a distinctive as well ascollective sense, to designate a particular part in theprivate houses of the Romans [Domus], and alsoa class of public buildings, so called from theirgeneral resemblance in construction to the atriumof a private house. There is likewise a distinctionbetween atrium and area; the former being anopen area surrounded by a colonnade, whilst thelatter had no such ornament attached to it. Theatrium, moreover, was sometimes a building by it-self, resembling in some respects the open basilica[Basilica], but consisting of three sides. Suchwas the Atrium Publicum in the capitol, which,Livy informs us, was struck with lightning, b. (Liv. xxiv. 10.) It was at other times at-tached to some temple or other edifice, and in suchcase consisted of an open area and surroundingportico in front of the structure, like that beforethe church of St. Peter, in the Vatican. Severalof these buildings are mentioned by the ancienth
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