. 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. tunic also being sufficiently short toleave the bangles round her ankles,and her Greek shoes exposed toview — galbino succincta cingillo, ita,ut infra cerasina appareret tunica, etperiscelides tortce, phcecasiceque inau-ratce. It must, therefore, have re-sembled what we now term a jacketor spenser, such as is


. 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. tunic also being sufficiently short toleave the bangles round her ankles,and her Greek shoes exposed toview — galbino succincta cingillo, ita,ut infra cerasina appareret tunica, etperiscelides tortce, phcecasiceque inau-ratce. It must, therefore, have re-sembled what we now term a jacketor spenser, such as is frequently re-presented in the Pompeian paintings,from one of which the illustration iscopied ; and if the tunic were onlydrawn up a little higher through itsgirdle, so as to leave the feet andankles exposed, it would strictly ac-cord with the entire costume de-scribed. CINGULA. A girth or surcingleby which the saddle pad is fastened,as in the example, from the Column. of Antoninus. Ovid. Bern. Am. Eel. vi. 41. 2. A mans girdle round the , A. Amat. iii. 444. and Cin- GULUM 3. CINGULUM (jaivia). A band,


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