. 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 flock of wool, nottwisted into a fringe (fimbria), but inits natural form of a knot or tuft, suchas we often see left upon the surfaceof blankets and other woollen the term was transferred tomany other objects both animateand inanimate which bore a resem-blance to the pointed and globu-lar for
. 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 flock of wool, nottwisted into a fringe (fimbria), but inits natural form of a knot or tuft, suchas we often see left upon the surfaceof blankets and other woollen the term was transferred tomany other objects both animateand inanimate which bore a resem-blance to the pointed and globu-lar form of that object ; as, a smallprojecting headland (Plin. H. N. ) ; a leaf (Id. xv. 30.); and thetwo drop-like excrescences, growinglike warts under the jowl of a she-goat (Id. viii. 76.), which the ancientartists likewise appended to thenecks of theirfauns and youngsatyrs, in order toindicate their li-bidinous propensities, when they re-presented them without horns, as inthe annexed example, from a statuefound at Herculaneum. 2. From the resemblance abovementioned, the name was given to asort of drop, frequently left on to thecorners of various articles of dress ;the chlamys (Plaut. Merc. i. 2. 29.),pallium (Pet. Sat. xii. 2.), toga ( 35.), and tunica (Pet. Sat.
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