. 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. a, in which it is representedhanging upon a peg amongst a varietyof eatables and table utensils. 2. A cloth or napkin which wasthrown down as a signal for the racesto commence atthe Circensianand other gamesby the magis-trate who fur-nished the show.(Suet Nero, xii. 29. xi. 191.)The origin oft
. 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. a, in which it is representedhanging upon a peg amongst a varietyof eatables and table utensils. 2. A cloth or napkin which wasthrown down as a signal for the racesto commence atthe Circensianand other gamesby the magis-trate who fur-nished the show.(Suet Nero, xii. 29. xi. 191.)The origin ofthis practice appears to have been ofvery great antiquity, since it is attri-buted to the Phoenicians (Quint, 57.); though, in after times, astory gained currency which madeNero its author, who was reported,upon some occasion, to have taken upa napkin from the table where hewas dining in the golden housewhich overlooked the Circus Maxi-mus, and thrown it down as a signal,when the populace in the circusbelow were becoming impatient forthe races to begin. (Cassiodor. iii. 51.) The illustration, whichshows a magistrate in the act ofraising the mappa, is taken from arepresentation of a chariot race, on aRoman bas-relief. MARCULUS Diminutive ofMarcus. A smiths hammer ( xii. 57. 6. Plin. H. N. vii. 57. xix. 7. 2.); and as the wordis a diminutive, it will represent one of the smaller kinds, used with onehand, as by the annexed figure froma sepulchral urn, and by one of thesmiths at p. 288. MARCUS. A large iron-headed
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