. 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. etches leather,whence a shoemakers last ^(Festus, s. v.), over which mthe leather is strained, asin the annexed example f^^^a*from a painting at Her- ^s£SSSsSa=^)culaneum. It is probable that thiswas only a colloquial term of thetrade and common people ; for Horaceand the Digest use the word formafor the same
. 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. etches leather,whence a shoemakers last ^(Festus, s. v.), over which mthe leather is strained, asin the annexed example f^^^a*from a painting at Her- ^s£SSSsSa=^)culaneum. It is probable that thiswas only a colloquial term of thetrade and common people ; for Horaceand the Digest use the word formafor the same object. 2. A cosmetic laid over the facefor taking out wrinkles, by tighteningthe skin (Festus, s. v.) ; which usageof the word, as well as the former one,has an air of colloquialism. TENTORIUM (oto^). Strictly,a tent stretched upon cords (fromtentus), as contradistinguished fromtabernaculum, which was formed on aframework of wood. But that dis-tinction is not strictly observed, andthe term is applied to any kind oftent, either for military or civil pur-poses. Hirt. B. G. viii. 5. 18. Virg. Mn. i. 472., andwood-cuts s. Papllio and T^ber- NACULUM. TEPID ARIUM or TEPID ARIACELL A. A chamber in a set ofbaths kept at a moderate degree oftemperature, in order to prepare the. body for the great heat of the suda- tory or vapour bath, and to breakthe sudden transition after it beforereturning into the open air. (Celsus,i. 3. Vitruv. v. 10. 5.) The illus-tration represents the interior of thetepidarium in the baths at adjoins the undressing-room (apo-dyterium), and the thermal chamber(caldarium), as directed by Vitruvius(1. c), to which the door on the righthand gave admission, as will be per-ceived by referring to the generalground-plan of the building at p. 74.,where it is marked c. It containsthree bronze benches (subsellia) in thepositions they were found when theexcavation was made, and a brazier(focus) at the further end for warm-ing the atmosphere ; but the
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