. 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. ANULUS, APHRACTUS. 43. tween the columns of the Atriumwere found entire,and similarly placedto the exampleannexed, which isfrom a miniatureof the VaticanVirgil, and exem-plifies their objectand use, thoughfrom the minute-ness of the designnot discernibleupon the rod. 4. A ring set round the circle of aboys ho
. 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. ANULUS, APHRACTUS. 43. tween the columns of the Atriumwere found entire,and similarly placedto the exampleannexed, which isfrom a miniatureof the VaticanVirgil, and exem-plifies their objectand use, thoughfrom the minute-ness of the designnot discernibleupon the rod. 4. A ring set round the circle of aboys hoop, for the purpose ofcreating a jing-ling noise as thehoop performedits revolutions. (Mart. Epigr. ) Several of these were placedon the same hoop, as shown by theexample, which is copied from asepulchral bas-relief on a tomb stillremaining near Tivoli. 5. A plait of long hair, arrangedin circles, likerings, round theback part of thehead ( ii. 66.), asseen in the illus-tration annexed,which representsPlotina, the wifeof the emperor Trajan, from anengraved gem. The female pea-santry in many parts of the Romanand Neapolitan states still continue toarrange their hair in a similar manner. 6. In architecture, annulets; whichconsist of a series of rings or cir- [ jcular fillets, vary-ing in
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