. 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. nrising fromthe floor ofthe chamber,which permit-ted a volumeof flame and hot air to raise itselfabove the general level of the apart-ment; and that the clipeus, whichregulated the temperature by admit-ting or shutting off the heat, wasplaced, as in the cut, under this cu-pola, and just over the
. 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. nrising fromthe floor ofthe chamber,which permit-ted a volumeof flame and hot air to raise itselfabove the general level of the apart-ment; and that the clipeus, whichregulated the temperature by admit-ting or shutting off the heat, wasplaced, as in the cut, under this cu-pola, and just over the it is difficult to conceive how theapparatus could have been worked insuch a situation, as both the clipeusand the chains for raising it wouldhave become intensely hot from theirproximity to the fire ; besides nothingbearing even a remote resemblanceto such a construction has been dis-covered in any of the ancient baths,and the account of Vitruvius (/. c.)describes almost minutelv a similar disposition to that observable in thecircular extremity of the thermalchamber in the Pompeian both the plans are introduced thereader has the means of judging forhimself. A long array of namesfavours each side of the argument. CLITEL/LiE (W^Aza). Thepack-saddle upon which paniers were.
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