. 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. or broken fragments of a tooth whichmight be left behind when the toothwas extracted. (Celsus, vi. 12. 1.) VOLUMEN. VOMITOUIA, 729. The example is from an original foundamongst several other surgical instru-ments at Pompeii. 3. A surgical instrument for takingup the proud flesh or edge of a woundto facilitate
. 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. or broken fragments of a tooth whichmight be left behind when the toothwas extracted. (Celsus, vi. 12. 1.) VOLUMEN. VOMITOUIA, 729. The example is from an original foundamongst several other surgical instru-ments at Pompeii. 3. A surgical instrument for takingup the proud flesh or edge of a woundto facilitate the operation of cuttingaway any portions which require re -moval. Celsus, vi. 18. 3. 4. A surgical instrument used forreplacing broken and protrudingbones, made like a smiths , vii. 10. 7. VOLUMEN. A roll, or book,which was written upon one longsheet, made out ofa number of stripsof papyrus gluedtogether, and whencompleted, rolledround a cylinder, sothat the reader un-rolled it as he read ;whence the expression evolvere volu-men means to read a book. ( Cic. 10. Hor. Tibull. Propert. Mart.)The illustration represents five rollstied up together, from originals asthey were discovered in a house atHerculaneum. 2. A volume, in our sense of theterm, that is, a certain portion of awork contained in one roll; for whenthe MSS. ran to any length, it wascustomary to divide it into separateparts or
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