. 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. nited. Virg. JEn. xi. 185. Serv. adI. Id. 2En. xi. 204. PYRAMIS (irvpafiis). A pyramid,a structure upon a square base, taper-ing gradually to a point at the particular form, as well as thename, originated without doubt with. the Egyptians; but for what preciseobject is still undetermined. Itwas, howev
. 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. nited. Virg. JEn. xi. 185. Serv. adI. Id. 2En. xi. 204. PYRAMIS (irvpafiis). A pyramid,a structure upon a square base, taper-ing gradually to a point at the particular form, as well as thename, originated without doubt with. the Egyptians; but for what preciseobject is still undetermined. Itwas, however, adopted by the Etrus-cans (Plin. xxxvi. 19. § 4.)and the Romans, as an appropriatedesign for sepulchral monuments ; allthose which are mentioned by theirwriters having been constructed forthat purpose, as well as the one nowremaining at Rome, which is knownas the pyramid of C. Cestius; andthe one here introduced from an en- graved gem, which is identified as atomb by the accompanying figure ofa gladiator, a class of whom, termedbustuarii, were engaged to fight roundthe burning pyre of distinguishedpersons. PYRGUS. (Sidon. Ep. viii. 12.)A word coined from the Greek irvpyos,though not occurring with the sameidentical signification in that lan-guage, and for which the genuineLatin word is Turkic cxa, which see. PYRRHICHA and PYRR-
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