. 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. annexed section and elevation of anoriginal olive-mill, found at object of it was to support thesquare box (cupa, 5.), into which oneextremity of each axle, on which thewheels (prbes, ) revolved, wasinserted ; so that when the wheelswere driven round the basin (1. 1), itconstituted the pivot up
. 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. annexed section and elevation of anoriginal olive-mill, found at object of it was to support thesquare box (cupa, 5.), into which oneextremity of each axle, on which thewheels (prbes, ) revolved, wasinserted ; so that when the wheelswere driven round the basin (1. 1), itconstituted the pivot upon which theyand their axles turned. MILLIARIUM. A mile-stone;which the Romans placed along thesides of their principal roads, in thesame manner as we do, with therespective distances from the city MILLIARIUM. M1MUS. 423. inscribed upon them, reckoned atintervals of 1000 Roman paces fourmile) apart. This customwas first introduced by ; and the illus-tration represents an ori-ginal Roman mile-stone,now standing on the Capi-tol, but which originallymarked the first milefrom Rome, as indicatedby the numeral I. on thetop of it. The rest of theinscription refers to theEmperors Vespasian and Nerva, bywhom it -was successively restored. 2. Milliarium aureum. The goldenmilestone; a gilt column, erected byAugustus, at the top of the Romanforum (in capite Bom. fori. Plin. 5. Suet. Otho, 6. tac. Hist. i. 27.),to mark the point at which all thegreat military roads ultimately con-verged and ended. (Plut. Galb. ) The precise spot where itstood was not ascertained till aboutten years ago, when an excavation,undertaken by the late pope, revealeda circular basement coated with marbleat the north-east angle of the forum,close beside the arch of SeptimiusSeverus, which, by the common con-sent of
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