. 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. nexed illustration, which represents asection of the state prisons, con-structed by Ancus Martius and Ser-vius Tullius, now existing at Rome,and the identical one to which thepassages of Livy, above quoted, refer. ROGATORES. Officers whoacted at the Roman Comitia in acapacity some-what similarto that of ourpo
. 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. nexed illustration, which represents asection of the state prisons, con-structed by Ancus Martius and Ser-vius Tullius, now existing at Rome,and the identical one to which thepassages of Livy, above quoted, refer. ROGATORES. Officers whoacted at the Roman Comitia in acapacity some-what similarto that of ourpoll clerks, theirduty being tostand at thenearest end ofthe bridge (pons suffragiorum), w hich each citizen. ascended to record his vote as hecame out from the inclosure (ovile)in which they were first mus-tered, and to present the ballotingtokens (tabellce) to each individual inturn, which he took and threw intothe box (cista) placed at the oppositeextremity of the bridge. The illus-tration, from a coin, explains theprocess, showing at the bottom therailing which enclosed the ovile, 2lvoter ascending the bridge and re-ceiving his ballot from the rogator,whilst another one at the oppositeend is engaged in depositing his inthe box. The term, however, origi-nated before the practice of secretvoting had obtained, when the pollclerk had only to ask (rogare) thecitizens how they intended to vote,and to register the result upon awaxed tablet containing a list of thecandidates, by making a mark orpoint (punctum) against the name ofeach one as a suffrage was recordedin his favour. Cic. N. D. ii. 4. Id* 35. Ib. i, 17. Id. in Sen. Pis. 15. ROGUS (irvpd). A funeral pilewhilst in process of
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