. 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. ployed bylate writers for a mill. Ammian. 11. P. Victor. Urb. Bom. Beg. See the next , sc. vestis (vo\6-XLVr)) A garment made of cloth I woven from the fibrous parts of thebark of the hibiscus (yUoAdx??), a spe-cies of mallow, which is still em-ployed in India for making c
. 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. ployed bylate writers for a mill. Ammian. 11. P. Victor. Urb. Bom. Beg. See the next , sc. vestis (vo\6-XLVr)) A garment made of cloth I woven from the fibrous parts of thebark of the hibiscus (yUoAdx??), a spe-cies of mallow, which is still em-ployed in India for making cordage. ! The word is also written mollicina, I molicina, and molocinia, all evidentvarieties from the Greek original. | Isidor. Orig. xix. 22. 12. Novius p. 540. Csecil. Ib. p. 548. I Yates, Textrin. Antiq. pp. 304— One whodeals in cloth made from the mallow , plant. Plaut. Aid. iii. 40. Molo- ; CHINA. MONAIPLOS and -US Qi6vav\os). I A single pipe, of the simplest cha- j racter, and played in the same wayas our flageolet and clarionet. ( N. vii. 57. Mart. xiv. 64.) TheGreek name also designates the per- I son who played it (Hedyl. Ep. ap. I Athen. iv. 78.), for which we findmonaules. (Not. Tires, p. 173.) Theillustration represents a single pipe. of this description, from a statue inthe Vatican, with a performer, show-ing the manner in which it washandled, from the Vatican Virgil. MONERIS (jbLOV7]p7]S, fjLOVOKpOTOS). A vessel which has only a singleline of oars in file ; a galley; as op-posed to those which have two ormore (Liv. xxiv. 33. Tac. Hist. qum simplici ordine agebantur), asshown by the annexed example, from 430 MONETA. MONOBOLON. the Vatican Virgil. Vessels of thisclass were sometimes of considerable
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