. 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. Juv. Sat viii. 145,), which was invery common use amongst all classesunder the later emperors, as an out-door covering for the head and shoul-ders. It had a long nap, like beaver(Claud. Epigr. 42.), and from thethickness of its texture is designatedas stiff (ripens, Sulp. Sev. Dial 14.),both of which qualitie
. 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. Juv. Sat viii. 145,), which was invery common use amongst all classesunder the later emperors, as an out-door covering for the head and shoul-ders. It had a long nap, like beaver(Claud. Epigr. 42.), and from thethickness of its texture is designatedas stiff (ripens, Sulp. Sev. Dial 14.),both of which qualities are clearlyrecognizable in the illustration, froma statue found at Pompeii, which re-presents a young fisherman asleep inhis capote. BISACCIOI. A pair of saddle-bags made of coarse sacking ; theoriginal of the Italian bisacce, andZiaaKiGv of the modern Sat 31. 9. Anton, ad I BISELLARIUS. A person towhom the privilege was accorded ofusing a bisellium. Inscript. 1099. 2. BISELLIUM. A state chair oflarge dimensions, sufficient for hold-ing two persons (Varro, v. 128.) ; though there is every reasonto believe that it was only used by. one ; as the several specimens foundor represented at Pompeii are usuallyaccompanied by a single foot-stool(suppedaneum) placed in the centre,similar to the example here given,which is from a Pompeian bas-relief,and has its name, bisellium, inscribedabove it. These chairs were usedby persons of distinction, especiallythe Augustals, in the provinces,at the theatre and other publicplaces, in the same manner as thesella curidis was at Rome. Mazois. Rubies de Pomp. vol. 24. ap. Fabretti, c. 3. n. 324. 475. 3. BIVIUM. A road, or street,which branches into two forks (Plin.
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