. 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. contrivance by which ihuman labour is assisted in agricul- jture, architecture, warfare, &c.; dif- fering, however, from machina in thisparticular, that it required a certainamount of skill from the person using jit, whereas that only wanted bruteforce or numbers to work it. (Vi- !truv. x. 1. 3. Columell. iii
. 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. contrivance by which ihuman labour is assisted in agricul- jture, architecture, warfare, &c.; dif- fering, however, from machina in thisparticular, that it required a certainamount of skill from the person using jit, whereas that only wanted bruteforce or numbers to work it. (Vi- !truv. x. 1. 3. Columell. iii. 13. xix. 20.) Hence the !word is especially given to musicalinstruments (Quint, ix. 4. 10. xi. ), and amongst these, more parti- jcularly to the one from which ourorgan is descended (Suet. Nero, 41. jLamprid. Alex. Sev. 27. Id. ) ; but which also had a special jname of its own, in allusion to the jwater originally employed, instead ofweights, for working it. See Hy- DRAULUS. ORNATRIX. A female slave, jwhose chief business consisted in at- !tending the toilette of her mistress for the especial purpose of dressingher hair (Ov. A. Am. iii. 239. 40.), upon which the Romanwomen bestowed a vast deal of at-tention and ingenuity, judging from. the various and often fantasticcoiffures exhibited in the numerousbusts remaining of the Imperial pe-riod. The annexed illustration repre-sents an ornatrix, in a Pompeianpainting, dressing her mistresss hairwith flowers, some of which are seenlying on the toilette table beside her. ORNFTHON (6pvi6d>v). Anaviary or poultry-house, forming oneof the principal appurtenances to afarm, or country villa, in which allkinds of domesticated birds werereared, kept, and fattened for thetable. These buildings were con-structed and laid out upon a verymagnificent scale by the Roman gen-try and farmers. Varro, JR. JR. iii. viii. 3. ORPHANOTROPHFUM (dpfa-voTpotyeiov). An asylum for orphans,where they were
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