. 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. it. 1. Val. Max. ii. 7. 2. 2. By Apuleius {Met. i. p. 18.),servants or attendants upon a magis-trate, such as the lictors. LOCARIUM. The price orsum paid for lodgings at an inn orlodging house. Varro, L. L. v. 15. LOCARIUS. One who makes aprofit by relinquishing his seat at aplace of public enterta
. 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. it. 1. Val. Max. ii. 7. 2. 2. By Apuleius {Met. i. p. 18.),servants or attendants upon a magis-trate, such as the lictors. LOCARIUM. The price orsum paid for lodgings at an inn orlodging house. Varro, L. L. v. 15. LOCARIUS. One who makes aprofit by relinquishing his seat at aplace of public entertainment, suchas the circus, theatre, &c. to anotherwho arrives too late to find v. 24. LOCELLUS. Diminutive of Lo-culus. Mart. xiv. 13. Pet. Sat Max. vii. 8, 9. Any smallbox or case. LOCULAMENTUM. Generally,any case, receptacle, or locker di-vided into separate compartments(Vitruv. x. 9. 5. and 6.) ; thencemore specially, and in the plural, anopen bookcase covering the sides ofa room from top to bottom, and di-vided into a number of separate com-partments, or, as we should say, aset of book shelves (Senec. ) ; also, a set of nests in a dove-cote or pigeon-house (Columell. 3.); and a hive for bees. 12. 2. LOCULUS. A coffin, in which. the body was deposited entire, when not reduced to ashes on the funeralpile. (Justin, xxxix. 1. Plin. H. 16. Id. vii. 2.) The illustrationrepresents a coffin of baked clay,with the plan of the interior under-neath, in which the shaded part is araised sill for the head of the corpseto rest upon ; and the round hole, areceptacle for aromatic balsams, whichwere poured into it through a cor-responding orifice on the outside of theshell. A marble colfin of more ela-borate design is introduced at p. 196. 2. A common wooden box, inwhich the dead bodies of poor peopleand criminals were carried Plane, s. Sandapila. 3. A crib or compartment in amanger, whether of stone, marble,or wood, in which
Size: 3072px × 814px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectclassicaldictionarie
