. 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. as likewise employed for otherpurposes to which such a figureadapted itself, as a cupping-glass(Celsus, ii. 11.), and a vessel fordrinking out of. (Plin. H. N. Pet. Sat. 42. 2.) PULVILLUS. Diminutive of PULVTNUS. PULVPNAR or be translated by our termspillow, bolster, cushion, as best suit
. 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. as likewise employed for otherpurposes to which such a figureadapted itself, as a cupping-glass(Celsus, ii. 11.), and a vessel fordrinking out of. (Plin. H. N. Pet. Sat. 42. 2.) PULVILLUS. Diminutive of PULVTNUS. PULVPNAR or be translated by our termspillow, bolster, cushion, as best suitsthe purpose for which it is the term conveys a notion ofgreatness and grandeur, and is to beunderstood, when strictly used, asindicating a cushion of large size andcostly materials, such as would beused for beds and couches on whichthe body reclines, rather than forchairs and seats, or for a sitting pos-ture. Pet. Sat. 135. 5. Senec. Ira,iii. 37. And woodcuts, pp. 374. 375. 2. Hence the word is principallyused to designate the splendid coucheswith cushions and squabs, uponwhich the images of the gods werelaid at the feast of the Lectister-nium, to partake, as it were, of thebanquet spread before them (Cic. PULVINARIUM. PUNCTUM. 537 Phil. ii. 43. Id. Bom. 53. Liv. 21.); as exhibited by the annexedwoodcut from a terra cotta lamp. 3. In the circus, a spot wherecouches of the same description werelaid out for those deities whose statueswere carried in solemn processionat the Circensian festival. Festus Suet. Aug. 45. Id. Cal. 4. 4. A bed of state, or marriage bed;but with especial reference to those ofthe divinities (Catull. lxiv. 47.), andof the Roman emperors, to whomdivine honours were paid. 13. Juv. vi. 132. PULVINARIUM. The place ina temple where the couches of thedeities were set out at the feast ofthe Lectisternium. Liv. xxi. 62. PULVINATUS. Having a fullor swelling contour, like a bolster orcushion; whence applied as a technicalterm by
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