. 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. 99.), which was meant to be placedupon a table ; or they were made tostand upon the ground ;in which case theywere of considerableheight, and consistedof a tall slender stem(scapus), generally imi-tating the stalk of aplant, or a taperingcolumn, and a roundflat dish or tray (super-ficies) at the top, onwhich
. 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. 99.), which was meant to be placedupon a table ; or they were made tostand upon the ground ;in which case theywere of considerableheight, and consistedof a tall slender stem(scapus), generally imi-tating the stalk of aplant, or a taperingcolumn, and a roundflat dish or tray (super-ficies) at the top, onwhich the lamp wasplaced, like the an-nexed illustration froma Pompeian is to candelabra ofthis description that Vitruvius alludes(vii. 5. 3.), when he reprehends thepractice adopted by the artists of hisown day, and of such frequent occur-rence in the arabesque decorations ofthe Pompeian houses, of introducingthem in the place of columns, asarchitectural supports to architravesand other superincumbent weights,out of all proportion with such talland slender stems. Compare alsoLychnuchus. 3. (AafjLTTTTip). A tall stand, witha hollow cup, instead of the flatsuperficies, at the top,in which pitch, rosin,or other inflammablematerials were were not port-able, but we
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