. 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. e head, and theother passed roundthe waist behind(Serv. ad Virg. 612.), so as topresent the appear-ance of a girdle,precisely as shownin the annexed fi-gure, from the Vatican Virgil. CINCTUS, -a, -urn. Generally,wearing a girdle, belt, or sash of anykind, and applied to both sexes ; tofemales, who wo
. 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. e head, and theother passed roundthe waist behind(Serv. ad Virg. 612.), so as topresent the appear-ance of a girdle,precisely as shownin the annexed fi-gure, from the Vatican Virgil. CINCTUS, -a, -urn. Generally,wearing a girdle, belt, or sash of anykind, and applied to both sexes ; tofemales, who wore a girdle under thebreast (Ovid. Met vi. 59. and Cin-gulum, 1.), or, like a zone, round theloins (Curt. iii. 3. and Cingulum,2.); to men, who wore a girdle overthe tunic (Plaut. Cure. ii. 1. 5. andCingulum, 3.); or their swordsattached to a waist-band (gladiocinctus, Liv. xxxviii. 21. and Cinc-torium) ; and to huntsmen who car -ried their knives in a waist-band(cultro venatorio cinctus, Suet. and 19.). 2. Cinctus alte. See Alticinctus. CINCTUTUS. Clothed after thefashion of the early ages ; i. e. withnothing but a short kilt {cinctus,irepifana) round the loins, as repre-sented in the last illustration exceptone. Hor. A. P. 50. Ovid. Fast Compare Plutarch, Rom. CINERARIUM. A niche in atomb, adapted for the reception of alarge cinerary urn, or a sarcophagus,as contradistinguished from colum-barium, which was of smaller dimen-sions, and only formed to receive apair of jars (pllce). (Inscript. 850. 10. Ap. Fabrett. 16. emit columbaria ollas. n. vtii. et cinerariummedianum.) The illustration, whichrepresents one side of a sepulchralchamber, as it appeared when firstexcavated, presents an arrangement
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