. 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. the details are not sufficiently cir-cumstantial in any one of them toillustrate satisfactorily the words ofVitruvius, or to show the precisemanner in which it acted, beyond thegeneral fact that it projected themissile by the force of its rebound,when the cross bar was drawn backfrom one of the sides, and the
. 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. the details are not sufficiently cir-cumstantial in any one of them toillustrate satisfactorily the words ofVitruvius, or to show the precisemanner in which it acted, beyond thegeneral fact that it projected themissile by the force of its rebound,when the cross bar was drawn backfrom one of the sides, and thenallowed to fly to again with a was also employed, in the samemanner as the ballista, for projectinglarge blocks of stone (Cses. B. C. ); for which purpose the arch inthe centre seems intended, in order tolet the mass pass ; and it was alsoplaced at times upon a carriage, andtransported by horses or mules, likethe carro-ballista, as proved by thenext wood-cut. CATAPULTARIUS (WaTreA-tik6s). Any thing used with, or be-longing to, a catapult ; hence pilumcatapultarium (Plaut. Cure. iii. 11.), a dart of a large and heavydescription, made for the purpose ofbeing projected from the catapulta.(Compare Polyb. xi. 11. 3.) Theillustration is taken from the Column of Trajan, and also affords an insightinto the manner of using and work-ing these engines. CATARACT A or CATARAC-TES (KaTappaKTys). A cataract,cascade, or sudden fall of water froma higher to a lower level, like thefalls of Tivoli or Terni. Plin. H. 10. Vitruv. viii. 2. 6. 2. A sluice, flood-gate, or lock in ariver, either for the purpose of mode-rating the rapidity of the current(Plin. Ep. x. 69.), or for shutting inthe water, so as to preserve a gooddepth in the stream. (Rutil. i. 481.)The illustration is copied from one
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