. 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. as we have no demon-strative evidence to illustrate theinterna^ construction of the ancientships. Festus, Virg. JEn. iv. 573. TRAPETUM, TRAPETUS, orTRAPES. An olive mill; or ma-chine for bruising the fleshy part ofthe olive, and separating it from thestone (Virg. Georg. ii. 519. Varro, v. 138.), befo
. 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. as we have no demon-strative evidence to illustrate theinterna^ construction of the ancientships. Festus, Virg. JEn. iv. 573. TRAPETUM, TRAPETUS, orTRAPES. An olive mill; or ma-chine for bruising the fleshy part ofthe olive, and separating it from thestone (Virg. Georg. ii. 519. Varro, v. 138.), before it was submit-ted to the action of the press (torcu-lar). A machine of this kind is de-scribed at length by Cato {It. JR. xx—xxii. and cxxxv.), and an ancientoriginal has been discovered at Gra-gnano (formerly Stabice), so closelyresembling that description as toleave no question respecting its nameand use. A drawing of this is insertedin the next page, both in elevation andsection, with the different members| properly put together, which werefound partly in fragments, and partly4 s 682 TRAPETUM. TRAPEZITA. entire, upon the spot. The namesascribed to each are in accordancewith the nomenclature of Cato, andthe same references apply to thesimilar parts in the elevation and the. section. The lower member forms acircular basin (mortarium, 1), of hardvolcanic stone, the sides of whichwere termed labra. (Cato, , 7.) From the centre of the basinthere rises a thick short column(miliarium, 2), serving to support theaxles of the bruising-wheels (orbes,3, 3), which are flat on the inside,and convex without. On the top ofthe column is placed an oblong squarewooden box or nave (cupa, 5), whichreceived at each end one of the twopoles (6, 6), passing through thewheels as an axle, and affording ahandle to turn them by, while at thesame time it kept the inner surfacesof the wheels at a fixed distancefrom the sides of the miliarium, so asto prevent them from rubbing againstit, when i
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