. 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. ess ofform and detail, instead of the usualimperfect and conventional style ofrepresentation, so generally adoptedby the ancient artists when treatingmarine subjects. 2. A smaller boat, constructed uponthe same model as the preceding, butrowed only by a pair of oars ( iii. 29. 62. biremis scapha), ande
. 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. ess ofform and detail, instead of the usualimperfect and conventional style ofrepresentation, so generally adoptedby the ancient artists when treatingmarine subjects. 2. A smaller boat, constructed uponthe same model as the preceding, butrowed only by a pair of oars ( iii. 29. 62. biremis scapha), andemployed for river and coasting oc-cupations, such as fishing (Justin, piscatoria scapha), &c. SCAPHE (Vitruv. ix. 8.). Sameas Scaphium, 2. SCAPHIUM {(TKd<piov). A vesselof small dimensions and Greek in-vention, employed at the dinner tableas a wine cup. It was sometimesmade of silver (Phylarch. ap. 21.), and elaborately ornament-ed as an object of luxury (, v, 4. 11. Cic. Verr. ii. 4. 17.);and appears to have belonged to thesame class of utensils as the patera orphiala, since Plutarch (Agid. et 811.) uses the latter term to desig-nate the same vessel which is calledscaphium by Phylarchus (Athen. 7. c).Perhaps the real distinction between. these words consisted in this, thatwhen the cup was a mere saucer with-out any handle, it was called a pateraby the Romans, and phiala (<pid\r})by the Greeks ; when furnished witha projecting handle, like the annexed
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