. 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. eral divisionswere distinguished by the names ofima, summa, media cavea, i. e. the jlower, upper, or middle tier ; the Ilowest one being the post of honour, iwhere the equites sat. (Plaut. 66. Cic. Am. 7. Id. Senect. 14.)The illustration affords a view of the |interior, or cavea, of the amphitheatr
. 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. eral divisionswere distinguished by the names ofima, summa, media cavea, i. e. the jlower, upper, or middle tier ; the Ilowest one being the post of honour, iwhere the equites sat. (Plaut. 66. Cic. Am. 7. Id. Senect. 14.)The illustration affords a view of the |interior, or cavea, of the amphitheatre Iat Pompeii, as it now remains; and |shows the general plan of arrange-ment. See also the articles and illus-trations to Theatrum and Amphi- THEATRUM. CAVER/NiE (kolXt) or koi\k) vavs).The hold of a ship, and the cabins itcontains. Cic. Orat. iii. 46. 110. CELERES. The old and originalname by which the equestrian orderat Rome was designated upon its firstinstitution by Romulus, consisting ofa body of 300 mounted men, selectedfrom the 300 patrician or burgherfamilies, and thus forming the nu-cleus of the Roman cavalry. 15. Plin. HN. xxxiii. 9. Niebuhr, Hist. Rom. vol. i. p. CELES (/ceArjs). A horse forriding, in contradistinction to a car-. riage or draught horse; but moreparticularly a race-horse, ridden inthe Greek Hippodrome, or the RomanCircus (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 10.), oneof which is shown in the illustration,from a stucco frieze, representingCupids racing, in the baths ofPompeii. 2, A boat or vessel of a particular class, in which each rower handled asingle oar on his own side, in contra-
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