. 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. tus ( 4. 21.), which the dictionariesand commentators interpret, a pair ofscissors. But the reading or the in-terpretation seems very doubtful; forthe instrument used by the ancientsfor the same purposes as our scissors,was termed Forfex by the Romans ;and in the passage of Plautus, theaxicia is enume
. 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. tus ( 4. 21.), which the dictionariesand commentators interpret, a pair ofscissors. But the reading or the in-terpretation seems very doubtful; forthe instrument used by the ancientsfor the same purposes as our scissors,was termed Forfex by the Romans ;and in the passage of Plautus, theaxicia is enumerated as an article ofthe toilet, with the comb, tweezers,looking-glass, curling-irons, andtowel; but a pair of scissors, thoughuseful enough on a modern dressingtable, would be far less appropriate to 72 AXIS. BACILLUM. the Roman toilet, if regard is had tothe difference of ancient habits. AXIS (frfrv). The axle-tree of acarriage to which the pole is affixed,and round which the wheels revolve(Ov. Met. ii. 317.), which is clearlyseen in the illustration from anancient bronze car preserved in theVatican; but in waggons of the kindcalled plaustra, the axle tree was nota fixture, but revolved together withthe wheels in nuts or sockets screwedon to the bottom of the cart ;
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