. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 146. Centaur. Kevrew and ravpos, i. e. herdsman ; but from KfVTioi, i. c. Piercer or Spearman).The Centaurs arc represented with the body 64 WORDS USED IN of a horse, and bust, head, and arms of a man.(Fig. 146.) In Christian archaeology, the Centauris a symbol of the swift passage of
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations . Fig. 146. Centaur. Kevrew and ravpos, i. e. herdsman ; but from KfVTioi, i. c. Piercer or Spearman).The Centaurs arc represented with the body 64 WORDS USED IN of a horse, and bust, head, and arms of a man.(Fig. 146.) In Christian archaeology, the Centauris a symbol of the swift passage of life, the forceof the instincts, and in a special sense, of adul-. Fig. 147. Centaur and young. tery. The war of the Centaurs and the Lapitha;is the subject of the frieze at the British Museum,from a temple of Apollo in Arcadia. Hippo-ctiitaiirs were half-horse ; Ono-centaurs, half-ass ;and Biiceiitaiirs or Tauro-centanrs, half-ox. Cento (KevTptuv, patchwork). A coveringmade of different scraps of cloth, and used asclothing for slaves. The same term denotes acoarse cloth which was placed beneath the saddleof a beast of burden, to keep the back of theanimal from being galled by the saddle. InChristian archaeology the term was used todenote a coarse patchwork garment, and, byanalogy, a poem composed of verses taken fromvarious authors, like the Cento nupiialis ofAusonius. Centunculus (dimin. of Cento, ). Amotley garment of various colours, like that ofour harlequin. It was worn, according toApuleius, by the actors who played in burlesques,and there are certain vases on which Bacchus isrepresented, arrayed in a similar costume. Cepotaphium {K-qno-Td
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