. 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. f the special bands. GLADIATORIUM. The pay orwages given to a free-born person whotrained and served as a gladiator forhire. Liv. xliv. 31. GLADIATURA. The practiceor art of a gladiator. Tac. Ann. iii. 43. GLADIOLUS (|*0i5tov). Dimi-nutive of Gladius ; same as Gell. x. 25. GLADIUS (Jtyos). Like o
. 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. f the special bands. GLADIATORIUM. The pay orwages given to a free-born person whotrained and served as a gladiator forhire. Liv. xliv. 31. GLADIATURA. The practiceor art of a gladiator. Tac. Ann. iii. 43. GLADIOLUS (|*0i5tov). Dimi-nutive of Gladius ; same as Gell. x. 25. GLADIUS (Jtyos). Like oursword; in some respects a generalterm, descriptive of a certain class ofinstruments, which admit of occasionalvariety both in size and shape ; butmore particularly used to designatethe straight, two-edged, cutting andthrusting glaives of the Greek andRoman soldiery, as contradistinguished from the curved and fine-pointedswords employed by foreign nations,or by particular classes of their owncountrymen ; all of which were de-signated by characteristic names, enu-merated in the Classed Index, andillustrated under their proper Greek £i(pos had a leaf-shapedblade, no guard, but a short cross-barat the hilt, as in the annexed example,and the woodcuts at pp. 146. 148., all. from fictile vases. It was not morethan twenty inches long, and wassuspended by a shoulder-strap (balteus)against the left side, as shown by thefigure of Agamemnon at p. 73. TheRomans used a sword of similar cha-racter to the Greek one until the timeof Hannibal, when they adopted theSpanish or Celtiberian blade ( 23.), which was straight-edged,longer and heavier than that of the Greeks (Florus. ii. 7. 9.), as will bereadily understood from the annexedexample, representing a Roman gla-dius in its sheath, from an originalfound at Pompeii. On the triumphalarches and columns, the commonsoldiers wear their swords in themanner stated by Polybius (I. c), onthe right side, suspended by a shoulder-ba
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