. 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. gn consistsof the following component parts;the sill, or threshold, raised a stepabove the pavement (limeri); thelintel above (super cilium, jugumentum,or limen superum); the door postswhich support it (postes) ; the doorleaves (fores), each of which is com-posed of the following parts; twouprights, one on ea
. 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. gn consistsof the following component parts;the sill, or threshold, raised a stepabove the pavement (limeri); thelintel above (super cilium, jugumentum,or limen superum); the door postswhich support it (postes) ; the doorleaves (fores), each of which is com-posed of the following parts; twouprights, one on each side of the leaf,technically termed the stiles byour carpenters (scapi); four trans-verse pieces, which our carpenterscall the rails (impagines), dividingthe whole into three separate panels(tympana). JENTACULUM^/cpaVi^a). Abreakfast; the earliest of the dailymeals. (Nigid. ap. Isidor. xx. ) It was taken at various hours,according to the habits of each indi-vidual ; by labourers very early inthe morning; and, in general, ap-pears to have consisted of light anddigestible food. Suet. Vit. 13. Mart,xiv. 223. Compare viii. 67. i. p. 14. JUG ALIS, sc. Equus ((tyiosLiriros). A draught-horse; but espe-cially one which draws by a yoke(jugum) attached to the pole, as con-. tradistinguished from funalis, whichdrew from traces (Virg. 2En. Sil. Ital. xvi. 400.), as shownby the annexed example, from anEtruscan painting. 2. Jugalis tela. See Tela. JUGAMENTUM. See Jugu- MENTUM. JUG ARIUS. A rustic slave, whoattended to the stalling, feeding, anddressing of the plough oxen. (Colli- 358 JUGATIO. JUGUM. mell. i. 6. 6.) The Tuscan pea-santry dress their oxen daily withthe brush and currycomb, as we doour horses; and it may be inferredfrom the above passage of Columellathat the Roman jugarius did the same. JUGATIO. Implies the trainingof vines to a rail or trellis, which waspractised in two ways; either insingle lines, like an espalier, thentermed jugatio directa, or ove
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