. 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. is characterised bythe epithet horribile; in some cases,even producing death (Hor. //. cc.) ;and the nature of the wound pro-duced by it is always specified bywords which are descriptive of cut-ting, such as ccedere, secare, scindere FLAGROI. FLAMEN. 289 (Hor. Juv. //. cc. Ov. Ibis, 183.), incontradistinction
. 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. is characterised bythe epithet horribile; in some cases,even producing death (Hor. //. cc.) ;and the nature of the wound pro-duced by it is always specified bywords which are descriptive of cut-ting, such as ccedere, secare, scindere FLAGROI. FLAMEN. 289 (Hor. Juv. //. cc. Ov. Ibis, 183.), incontradistinction to those connectedwith flagrum, which express anaction of thumping or pounding, suchas pinsere or rumpere. The scourgeheld by the upright figure in the il-lustration, which is copied from thedevice on the handle of a bronze jugfound at Pompeii, is no doubt in-tended to represent one of these in-struments; but it will be readilyconceived from the minuteness ofthe design, consequent upon theconfined space allotted to it, that itaffords only an imperfect idea of thereal object. 2. A driving-whip (Virg. 2En. Sil. iv. 440.); in which casewe may infer that it designates oneof a severer description than thosecommonly used; with two or threethongs, for instance, instead of a sin-. gle one like the scuiica. The speci-men here introduced is used by aTriton in a Pompeian painting. 3. The thong attached to a har-poon (aclis), for the purpose of draw-ing it back again to the person whohad launched it. Virg. JEn, vi. ad I. FLAGRUM. An instrumentemployed chiefly for the punishmentof slaves ( iv. 2. xiv. 79.),consisting of se-veral chains withknobs of metal attheir extremities (whenceJuv. v. 172.), appended tohandle, in the same manner as awhip ; but which dealt out heavyblows rather than lashes; conse-quently the effects produced by itare described by words expressive ofthumping, pounding, and breaking(pinsere, Plaut. Merc. ii. 3. 80. rum-pere, Ulp. Dig
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