. 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. art,iv. 19. xii. 83.) Theexample is from an Etrus-can bronze; the stitchingof the leather is plainlyindicated, and the size of the ballmay be imagined from the size of thehand, that of a childs, which holds it. 2. The game played with a ball orballs of the kind just described. ( i. 6. 126.) It is supp
. 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. art,iv. 19. xii. 83.) Theexample is from an Etrus-can bronze; the stitchingof the leather is plainlyindicated, and the size of the ballmay be imagined from the size of thehand, that of a childs, which holds it. 2. The game played with a ball orballs of the kind just described. ( i. 6. 126.) It is supposed thatthree persons were required to makeout the game, who stood in the rela-tive positions occupied by the threepoints of a triangle, so that eachwould have an opponent in front ofhim, on his right and left; and asexpertness in the use of the left handis mentioned as essential to a goodplayer (Mart. xiv. 46.), it is furtherinferred that each one was furnishedwith two balls, which he had to de-liver right and left, and catch in thesame manner. But this account de-pends more upon conjecture thanpositive evidence, as no representationof the game, sufficiently decisive toestablish the fact, has yet been dis-covered. TRIGONUM (rpiyovov). A tri-angular piece of marble, tile, or some. artificial composition, used for in-laying patterns in a mosaic pavementof the class termed sectile (Vitruv. TRILIX. TRIPUS. 689 vii. 1. 4. Pavimentum, 2.), as shownby the border round the four sides ofthe illustration, which represents apiece of pavement on the threshold ofthe principal entrance to one of thehouses at Pompeii. 2. A musical instrument of trian-gular form, with all its strings of thesame thickness, but of unequal lengths(Plat. Rep. 399. c. Soph. Athen. iv. 77. Ib. 80.), andwhich, it is to be inferred from thefigure on the left side of the illustra-tion, copied from a Pompeian paint-ing, was carried on the shoulderwhen played. The word does notoccur in the present sense in a
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