. 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. diatorsexhibited over and above the regularnumbers advertised for the show, inorder to gratify the demands (postu-lata) of the people. Senec. JEp. vii. PR^CENTOR. The leader ofa choral band. Apul. de Mund. 749. PRiECIA. A crier who precededi the Flamines on holy days, and or-| dered the people to cease fr
. 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. diatorsexhibited over and above the regularnumbers advertised for the show, inorder to gratify the demands (postu-lata) of the people. Senec. JEp. vii. PR^CENTOR. The leader ofa choral band. Apul. de Mund. 749. PRiECIA. A crier who precededi the Flamines on holy days, and or-| dered the people to cease from work! whilst a procession passed, lest the| sacred rites should be profaned byj the priest setting eyes upon a person| engaged in manual labour, which was regarded in the light of a pollution,i Festus, s. v. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 268. PR^ECINCTIO (tiidCwfia). Awide landing place, or lobby, in theinterior of a theatre and amphitheatre,running all round the circle of thecavea at the top of each mamianum, ortier of seats (Vitruv. v. 3. 4. Com-pare ii. 8. 11.). The general designof these lobbies will be understood AVIUM. PRiEFECTI. 523 by referring to the plan of the theatreat Hereulaneum introduced s. Thea-tre Romanum, a portion of whichis shown in elevation by the wood-. cut annexed, which contains the cor-responding parts of three prcecinc-ttones. Their use was to enable thespectator when he entered the theatreto reach his own seat without incom-moding those who had arrived beforehim. If, for instance, he entered bythe furthest of the small doors (vomi-torici) in the illustration, whilst thenumber of his seat happened to be inthe compartment (cavea) nearest tothe reader, he walked round the prce-cinctio until he reached the nearerflight of stairs (scetlce), which he de-scended until he came to the row ofseats (gracilis) where his place wasnumbered, thus having to pass onlythose few persons who might be sittingbetween the staircase and the stallbelonsrins to him. PRl
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