. 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. he depth ofthe common spade (pala). Theusual reach of this instrument wastwo feet, but that could be increasedor diminished, by placing the cross-bar either further from, or nearer to,the blade. (Cato, 45. 2. Varro, i. 37. 5. Columell. xi. 3. 11.)The example is from a sepulchralbas-relief. BIPED A. A
. 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. he depth ofthe common spade (pala). Theusual reach of this instrument wastwo feet, but that could be increasedor diminished, by placing the cross-bar either further from, or nearer to,the blade. (Cato, 45. 2. Varro, i. 37. 5. Columell. xi. 3. 11.)The example is from a sepulchralbas-relief. BIPED A. A large tile, two feetlong, used for making pavements inthe open air. Pallad. i. 40. 2. Id. 1. BIPENNIFER. Bearing, orarmed with, the double-bladed axe(bipennis), a weapon especially cha-racteristic of the Amazons, as seen inthe illustration, from aGreek bas-relief, butalso attributed to otherpersons, as to theThracian king, Lycur-gus (Ov. Met. iv. 22.),and to Areas, the sonof Jupiter and Met. viii. 391. BIPENNIS (8/oro-fxos 7r4\eKus, cl^ipt)). Anaxe with a double edgeor blade (Isidor. 19. 11.) ; used as a chip axe ( iv. 4. 57.), and more com-monly as a weapon of war. (, v. 307. Plin. viii. 8.)See the illustration and BIPRORUS (tibrpwpos). Havinga double prow (Hygin. Fab. ); which probably means avessel built sharp fore and aft, likethe fast-sailing proas of the In-dian seas, so that it could sail eitherway without tacking or going Tac. Ann. ii. 6. BIREMIS (StWos). Literally,furnished with a pair of oars orsculls; and thence used, both adjec-tively with scapha, and absolutely,for a small boat rowed by one man,
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