. 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. ith stucco work orgilding, the coffers of a ceiling. 13. 4. 2. LAQUEATORES. A class ofgladiators very similar to the Retiarii,excepting that they made use of anoose or lasso, instead of a net, tohamper their adversaries before at-tacking them with their Orig. xviii. 56. LAQUEATUS (
. 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. ith stucco work orgilding, the coffers of a ceiling. 13. 4. 2. LAQUEATORES. A class ofgladiators very similar to the Retiarii,excepting that they made use of anoose or lasso, instead of a net, tohamper their adversaries before at-tacking them with their Orig. xviii. 56. LAQUEATUS (cparvccr6s). _ Ap-plied to ceilings which are laid incoffers or panels, as explained andillustrated s. Lacunar. Hor. Od. 11. Suet. Nero, 31. LAQUEUS (/3po>s). A cordwith a slip-loop to it, forming a nooseor halter for strangling (Sail. Cat. i. 26.); or a snare by whichwild animals, game, vermin, &c, werecaught by the neck. Virg. Georg. LARES. Tutelary spirits ; accord-ing to the religious belief of theRomans, supposed to be the souls ofdeceased persons, who exercised aprotecting influence over the interiorof every mans household, himself,his family, and property. They werenot regarded as divinities, like thePenates; but simply as guardianspirits, whose. altar was the do-mestic hearth(focus) in theatrium, uponwhich each indi-vidual made of-ferings of incenseto them in hisown home. ( Prol 2. v. 1. torn, xi.) They were likewisebelieved to exert their influence outof doors, where they became the overseers of every spot and place in-habited by men ; as the streets, roads,fields, and buildings, both in town andcountry ; whence they were distin-guished by the epithets compitales,viales, rurales (Suet. Aug. 31. v. 2. 24. Tibull. i. 1. 20.); andthe household ones, familiares ( ). They are constantly re-presented in works of art as youngmen crowned with a chaplet of laurelleaves, in a short tunic
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