. 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. or clavolce), and intended for theconveyance of goods, as well as pas-sengers. Under the Empire, it wascommonly employed for the transportof soldiers, which was thence termedcursus clabularis. (Impp. Constant,et Julian. Cod. Theodos. 6. 29. xx. 4. 11.) The cart inthe illustration is from a painting
. 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. or clavolce), and intended for theconveyance of goods, as well as pas-sengers. Under the Empire, it wascommonly employed for the transportof soldiers, which was thence termedcursus clabularis. (Impp. Constant,et Julian. Cod. Theodos. 6. 29. xx. 4. 11.) The cart inthe illustration is from a painting atPompeii, and was employed for thetransport of wine. The open rail-work with which it is constructed,helps to authorize the interpretationgiven, which otherwise is to beregarded as more conjectural thanpositive. CLASSIARII (eVt&frrat). Aclass of soldiers trained for fightingon board ship (Hirt, B. Alex. 20.),thus corresponding in many respectswith our marines. But this branch. of the military service was regardedby the Romans as less honourablethan the other; for both the sailors(jiautce) and the rowers (remiges) aresometimes included under the generalname of classiarii (Hirt, B. Alex. Ann. xiv. 4.) The illustration is from an ancient bas-relief publishedby Scheffer, Mil. Nav. Addend. CLASSICI. Citizens who be-longed to the first of the six classesinto which the population of Romewas divided by Servius Tullius ( vii. 13.) ; whence the expressionscriptores classici, classical authors,means those of the very first Gell. xix. 8. 6. 2. The horn-blowers who summonedthe classes to the comitia by soundof the lituus or the cornu. Varro, L. L. V. 91. CORNICEN, LlTICEN. 3. Same as Classiarii ; includingthe fighting men as well as the shipscompany. Curt. iv. 3. Tac. Hist. ib. ii. 17. 4. Classica corona (Vellej. ii. ) ; same as Corona navalis. CLASSICUM. Properly, a sig-nal given by sound of trumpet;whence transferred to the instr
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