. 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. ry emer-gencies of scarcity, to regulate thecorn market, procure supplies, andfix the price at which it should besold; but under the emperors hebecame a permanent officer, electedfor similar purposes, and ranked asone of the ordinary magistrates. 12. Tac. Ann. i. 7. Ib. xi. 31. PR^FERICULUM. A metalva
. 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. ry emer-gencies of scarcity, to regulate thecorn market, procure supplies, andfix the price at which it should besold; but under the emperors hebecame a permanent officer, electedfor similar purposes, and ranked asone of the ordinary magistrates. 12. Tac. Ann. i. 7. Ib. xi. 31. PR^FERICULUM. A metalvase, without any handle, and widelyopen above, like the pelvis, employedfor holding the sacred utensils whichwere carried in procession at certainreligious solemnities. Festus, s. v. PR^EFIC^. Women hired toact as mourners in the funeral pro-cessions of wealthy individuals. (Lu-cil. and Varro ap. Non. s. v. p. True. ii. 6. 14.) They pre-ceded the corpse, making every ex-ternal demonstration of poignantgrief, with bare heads and dishevelledhair, weeping aloud, and chanting afuneral dirge, or singing the praisesof the deceased; as exhibited by theannexed figures from a marble sarco- PRiEFUKNTUM. PIkESUL. 525 phagus, on which the funeral ofMeleager is represented. This singu-. lar custom is still observed in twodistricts of Italy, at Canalo and atAgnara, both in the diocese ofGerace, where women, termed ripe-titrici, that is, rehearsers, performsimilar offices for the dead. Ficoroni,Vestig. Rom. part ii. p. 77. The mouthof a furnace in a kiln (fomaz), or tothe heating chamber (Ju/pocausis) ofa set of baths ; that is, the narrowpassage or gully opening into thefurnace through which the fuel wasintroduced. (Cato, R. R. 38. 1. Vi-truv. v. 10, 2. Id. vii. 10.) It isshown in the annexed wood-cut, re-presenting the remains of a Romanpottery-kiln, discovered near Castor
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