. 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. monly worn by slaves, rustics, fisher-men, and persons whose occupationsexposed them to the weather at allseasons, like the cowl of the Capu-chin friars, and modern Neapolitanfishermen. (Columell. xi. 1. Ep. xi. 98. 10. Juv. vi. i. 43. 4.) The above illustra-tion is from a painting at Pom
. 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. monly worn by slaves, rustics, fisher-men, and persons whose occupationsexposed them to the weather at allseasons, like the cowl of the Capu-chin friars, and modern Neapolitanfishermen. (Columell. xi. 1. Ep. xi. 98. 10. Juv. vi. i. 43. 4.) The above illustra-tion is from a painting at Pompeii, re-presenting a group of common peopledrinking in a tavern (caupona). When. it was desired to uncover the head,the cowl was pushed back, and rested on the upper part of the back, in themanner shown by the second en-graving, representing another of thefigures in the same group. The firstof these illustrates Ciceros descrip-tion of M. Antony {Phil ii. 31.),domum venit capite involuto; the latterone, the caput aperuit, of the samepassage. 3. Cucullus Bardaicus (Jul. , 8.) ; same as Bardocu-cullus. 4. Cucullus Liburnicus (Mart, inLemmate, xiv. 139.) ; same as Bar- DOCUCULLXTS. 5. Cucullus Santonicus (Juv. ) ; same as Bardocucullus ;from the town of Saintes in France,where the manufacture of these arti-cles was introduced from Illyria. CUCUMA- A vessel employedfor boiling water, making decoctions,and similar purposes, the preciseform and character of which thereare no materials for determining.(Pet. Sat 135. 4. Id. 136. 2.) Theword, however, is still retained in thecolloquial language of the modernRomans, in which 7a cucumameans a vessel for b
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