. 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. rse of entrees is exposedto view — superiorem partem reposi-torii abstiderunt. Quo facto, videmusinfra, scilicet in altero ferculo, altilia,&c —which passage distinctly pointsout the difference between a reposi-torium and a ferculum, and provesthe inaccuracy of those scholars whomake the two words synonymous.
. 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. rse of entrees is exposedto view — superiorem partem reposi-torii abstiderunt. Quo facto, videmusinfra, scilicet in altero ferculo, altilia,&c —which passage distinctly pointsout the difference between a reposi-torium and a ferculum, and provesthe inaccuracy of those scholars whomake the two words synonymous. REPOTIA. A carousal or drink-ing bout after a banquet (Apul. 501. Id. de Mund. p. 750.) ;whence, in a more special sense, theentertainment given by a bridegroomto his friends the day after his s. v. Hor. Sat ii. 2. 60. RESTIARIUS (<jxoivott\6kos,KaXooarpocpos). A rope maker. In-script. Vet. a Jo. Cam. Rossi edita. RESTIO (axoiPoirwKrjs). A dealerin ropes and cords. Front, , p. 2201. Suet. Aug. 2. RETE and RETIS (Mktvov). Anet; in the same general sense as isconveyed by our own word; includingboth fishing and hunting nets, and, inconsequence,1 all the different kindswhich are enumerated in the ClassedIndex. (Cic. Plaut. Virg. &c.) But. sportsmen made use of the term in amore special or technical sense, to j distinguish the large net or haye(longo meantia retia tractu. Nemes. j Cyneg. 300.), with which they used tosurround a wide tract of country, be- j fore the operation of beating the coverscommenced, in order to prevent the 1 game from dispersing through the ! open country, and to form an enclosedcircle towards which they might be i driven, when dislodged by the dogs | from the shelter of their thickets. : Both the object itself, the manner of \ setting it, and the purpose for whichit was used, may be readily imaginedfrom the annexed illustration, copiedfrom a fresco-painting in the sepul-chre of the Nasonian family, near | Rome, which a
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