. 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. (Strabo,xi. 2. 12. Tac. Hist. iii. 47. x. 25. 3.) An old engravingby F. Huiis after the elder Brengel,and published by Jal (ArcheologieNavaJe, vol. ii. p. 255.), exhibits thestern of a vessel constructed in themanner described, and probably pre-serves a trace of the ancient camara. CAMELLA. A wooden
. 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. (Strabo,xi. 2. 12. Tac. Hist. iii. 47. x. 25. 3.) An old engravingby F. Huiis after the elder Brengel,and published by Jal (ArcheologieNavaJe, vol. ii. p. 255.), exhibits thestern of a vessel constructed in themanner described, and probably pre-serves a trace of the ancient camara. CAMELLA. A wooden bowlfor drinking out of, the form andpeculiarities of which are entirelyunknown. Ov. Fast. iv. 779. 135. § 3 and 4. Id. 64. § 13. C AMILLUS (KaZovKos or KddooXos).An attendant who waited upon thehigh priest while of-ficiating at the sacri-fice ; as the Camillawas a young femalewho attended in likemanner upon his were selectedfrom the children ofnoble families (Ma-crob. Sat. iii. 8. Fes-tus, s. Flamininius),and are frequently re-presented in ancientworks of art, standingat the side of the priest or priestess,and bearing in their hands the vesselsemployed in the sacred rite. Theexample here introduced is from theVatican Virgil. CAMINUS (Kd/jLiyos). A smelting. 104 C A Mils US. furnace. (Plin. xxxiii. 21.)The illustration represents the section
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