. 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. esubstructions of the Capitolium, arebuilt of this material, which in factwas the only one in use until theintroduction of the Appian and Gabianstone, now designated by the name ofpeperino. It is consequently thiswhich Livy designates by the nameof saxum quadratum (vi. 4.), whenspeaking of the foundation of t
. 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. esubstructions of the Capitolium, arebuilt of this material, which in factwas the only one in use until theintroduction of the Appian and Gabianstone, now designated by the name ofpeperino. It is consequently thiswhich Livy designates by the nameof saxum quadratum (vi. 4.), whenspeaking of the foundation of theCapitoline temple ; and the same ma-terial is intended (x. 23.) when hesays that the road from the PortaCapena to the temple of Mars waspaved saxo quadrate-; not that thestones were regularly squared, likeashlar, since the Romans always em-ployed polygonal blocks for roadpaving (see the article and illustrations. Via), but that the material usedwas lithoid tufo, instead of silex,which in his time was the usual , Suolo di Roma. SCABELLUM. Diminutive ofScamnum (Quint, i. 4. 12.) ; a smallsquare stool, forming but one step, orconsisting of a single height (Varro,L. L. v. 168.), employed as a bed-step, when the bedstead was not a chair or seat for the feet to rest upon as. very high one (Varro, /. c), as shownby the annexed illustration from aRoman bas-relief. 2. (viroirobiop). A foot-stool, ofsimilar character, placed before a
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