. 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. angle like thecarpenters square.(Coel. Aur. Tard. ) The illustrationis copied from amarble chair in abas-relief formerly in the palace of the Cardinal Mazzariniat Rome. 5. The prongs or forks at the endof the props (vara), which the an-cient sportsmen used to hangtheir nets upon. (Grat. Cyneg. 87.)These
. 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. angle like thecarpenters square.(Coel. Aur. Tard. ) The illustrationis copied from amarble chair in abas-relief formerly in the palace of the Cardinal Mazzariniat Rome. 5. The prongs or forks at the endof the props (vara), which the an-cient sportsmen used to hangtheir nets upon. (Grat. Cyneg. 87.)These were stuck by their sharpends into the ground, and atshort intervals from one another,around any spot which it waswished to enclose, and the netsthen hung upon the fork. Com-pare Vara, where the manner ofsetting up the net is shown. 6. A particular kind of bottle orvessel for holding wine used in theRoman taverns (Paul. Dig. 13.), and which, from its denomination, isnot unreasonably supposed to havebeen made with a bent neck, some-thing like a retort. An examplealone is wanting to confirm the con-jecture. ANGOR A (ayKvpa). An ancient anchors were sometimesmade with only one arm or fluke, butthe most perfect kinds had two, madeof iron, and in form closely resembled. those still in use. They were usuallycarried over the bows of the vessel(Virg. Aen. iii. 277.), as in the ex-ample from Trajans Column; butlarge ships had two, and sometimesmore, according to their size. 43. ANCORALE. The cable of ananchor, Liv. xxii. 19. Id. xxxvii. the preceding woodcut. 2. The buoy-rope. (Plin. H. N. ) The buoy itself (ar^xetov viii. 12. 1.) was made of cork,and was attached by means of theancorale to a ring, which is seen atthe bottom of the shank in the pre-ceding illustration. While the buoyindicated the spot where the anchorlay, the rope which held it also servedto draw the fluke out of the ground,when the anchor had to be raised. ANDABATiE
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