A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ) ; but not so the Greek,although the latter had a standard, the elevationof which served as a signal for joining battle,either by land (Polyaen. iii. 9. § 27 ; Corn. Nepos,xi. 2. § 2) or by sea. (Thucyd. i. 49.) A scarletflag {(poivLKis) was sometimes used for this pur-pose. (Polvaen. i. 48. § 2.) [J. Y.]SIGNINUM OPUS. [Domus, p. 431, a.]SIGNUM, a division of the Roman legion.[Exercitus, p. 501, a.]SILENTIARII. [Praepositus.]SILICERNIUM. [Funus, p. 562, a.]SILIQUA. [Uncia.] SIMPULUM or SIMPUVIUM, was thename of a small cup used in sacrifices, by
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ) ; but not so the Greek,although the latter had a standard, the elevationof which served as a signal for joining battle,either by land (Polyaen. iii. 9. § 27 ; Corn. Nepos,xi. 2. § 2) or by sea. (Thucyd. i. 49.) A scarletflag {(poivLKis) was sometimes used for this pur-pose. (Polvaen. i. 48. § 2.) [J. Y.]SIGNINUM OPUS. [Domus, p. 431, a.]SIGNUM, a division of the Roman legion.[Exercitus, p. 501, a.]SILENTIARII. [Praepositus.]SILICERNIUM. [Funus, p. 562, a.]SILIQUA. [Uncia.] SIMPULUM or SIMPUVIUM, was thename of a small cup used in sacrifices, by whichlibations of wine were offered to the gods. Festussays that it was not unlike the cyathus. (Festus,s. v. ; Varr. L. L. v. 124, ed. Muller ; Plin. H. 12. s. 46 ; Juv. vi. 343 ; Cic. deRep. vi. 2.)It often appears on Roman coins, as on the an-nexed coin of the Sestia gens, which represents onthe obverse a tripod with a secespita on one sideand a simpuvium on the other. A simpuvium alsoappears on the coin figured under There was a proverbial expression excitare fluctusin simpulo, to make much ado about nothing (Cic. de Leg. iii. 16).SINDON. [Pallium, p. 851, b.]SINGULARES. [Exercitus, p. 508, b.]SIPARIUM, a piece of tapestry stretched on aframe, which rose before the stage of the theatre(Festus, ; Cic. Prov. Cons. 6 ; Juv. viii. 186),and consequently answered the purpose of thedrop-scene with us, although, contrary to our prac-tice, it was depressed when the play began, so asto go below the level of the stage (aulaea premun-tur, Hor. Epist. ii. 1. 189), and was raised againwhen the performance was concluded (toUuntur,Ovid. Met. iii. 111—114). From the last-citedpassage we learn that human figures were repre-sented upon it, whose feet appeared to rest uponthe stage when this screen was drawn up. Froma passage of Virgil (Georg. iii. 25) we furtherlearn, that the figures were sometimes those ofBritons woven in the canvass and raising theirarms in th
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