. 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. 314 GALLICiE. hair is removeable, with the excep-tion of the two tresses on the shoul-. ders, which are carved out of thesolid block of marble. Some anti-quaries are of opinion that thesescalps were intended to representwigs, and infer from thence that itwas the fashion at Rome for femalesof all ages to shave
. 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. 314 GALLICiE. hair is removeable, with the excep-tion of the two tresses on the shoul-. ders, which are carved out of thesolid block of marble. Some anti-quaries are of opinion that thesescalps were intended to representwigs, and infer from thence that itwas the fashion at Rome for femalesof all ages to shave off their ownhair, and wear an artificial peruke,at the periods when these busts wereexecuted; but it is far more reason-able to attribute the practice to thefrivolous and ever changing modesof the day, and to recognise in theman expedient resorted to by sculptors,in order to gratify the vanity of theirpatrons, who, being unwilling to seetheir own portraits in a head-dresswhich was no longer in vogue, couldby this means alter the coiffure withthe change of the day, without dis-figuring or mutilating the statue. GALL/ICiE. A pair of Gaulishshoes; the original of the French
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