. 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. ap-proached the rowers (Isidor. 2. 4. Ennius, ap. Isidor. /. c.);also termed aditus in less technicallanguage. Ovid. Met. iii. 623. AGGER (%w^a). Generally anything which is thrown together —quod adgeritur — to fill up a void, orraise a mound, whether of earth,wood, or rubbish, whence the fol-lowing
. 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. ap-proached the rowers (Isidor. 2. 4. Ennius, ap. Isidor. /. c.);also termed aditus in less technicallanguage. Ovid. Met. iii. 623. AGGER (%w^a). Generally anything which is thrown together —quod adgeritur — to fill up a void, orraise a mound, whether of earth,wood, or rubbish, whence the fol-lowing more special senses are de-rived. 1. An artificial mound or rampartwith which the Romans surroundedtheir camps, or any position intendedto be occupied for a certain periodduring the campaign. It was mostcommonly a large embankment ofearth, surmounted on the top by 16 AGGER. palisades (valluni), and protected onthe outside by a trench (fossa), formedby the excavation of the earth dugout of it to form the agger. But insituations where the nature of thesoil would not admit of an embank-ment of earth, other materials of readyand easy access were had recourse to,and it was then frequently constructedout of the trunks of trees filled in withbrushwood, &c, as in the illustration. from the Column of Trajan. The topof it is covered by a vallum or pali-sade, and a boarded gallery over headfor the protection of the example will at once explain themeaning of those passages in which itis mentioned that the agger was seton fire. Cses. Bell. Civ. ii. 14. 2. Agger murorum. (Virg. JEn. ) An embankment upon which thewalls and towers of a fortified citywere built, and which served as arampart upon which the garrison werestationed to defend the place. It wasconstructed of earth thrown up in themanner last described, but was more-over cased with masonry, and as-cended from the inside by a flight ofsteps, as seen in the cut, which is a
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