A dictionary of Greek and Roman . stridens i?i limine cardo, Virg. Ciris, 222; 114—116, Schol. ad loc.). The Greeks and Romans also used hinges ex-actly like those now in common use. Four Romanhinges of bronze, preserved in the British Museum,are here The form of the door above delineated makes itmanifest why the principal line laid down in sur-veying land was called * cardo (Festus, s. v. De-cumanus ; Isid. Orig. xv. 14) ; and it further ex-plains the application of the same term to theNorth Pole, the supposed pivot on which theheavens revolved. (Varr. De Re
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . stridens i?i limine cardo, Virg. Ciris, 222; 114—116, Schol. ad loc.). The Greeks and Romans also used hinges ex-actly like those now in common use. Four Romanhinges of bronze, preserved in the British Museum,are here The form of the door above delineated makes itmanifest why the principal line laid down in sur-veying land was called * cardo (Festus, s. v. De-cumanus ; Isid. Orig. xv. 14) ; and it further ex-plains the application of the same term to theNorth Pole, the supposed pivot on which theheavens revolved. (Varr. De Re Rust. i. 2 ; Ovid,Ex Ponto, ii. 10. 45.) The lower extremity ofthe universe was conceived to turn upon anotherpivot, corresponding to that at the bottom of thedoor (Cic. De Nat. Deor. ii. 41; Vitruv. vi. 1,ix. 1) ; and the conception of these two principalpoints in geography and astronomy led to the ap-plication of the same term to the East and Westalso. (Lucan. v. 71.) Hence our four points ofthe compass are called by ancient writers quatuorcardines orbis terrarum, and the four principalwinds, N. S. E. and W., are the cardinales ventL(Serv. ad Aen. i. 85.) [J. CARINA. [Navis.] CARMENTALIA, an old Roman festival ce-lebrated in honour of the nymph Carmenta orCarmentis, for
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