. 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. xxxiv. 41. ROTA (jpoxos). A wheel; madein the same form as now, and com-posed of the fol-lowing members:— modiolus, thenave; radii, thespokes; absides,the felloes; canthusor or bis, the tire ;all of which aredistinctly marked in the annexedfigure, representing an original wheelnow preserved in the cabinet of
. 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. xxxiv. 41. ROTA (jpoxos). A wheel; madein the same form as now, and com-posed of the fol-lowing members:— modiolus, thenave; radii, thespokes; absides,the felloes; canthusor or bis, the tire ;all of which aredistinctly marked in the annexedfigure, representing an original wheelnow preserved in the cabinet of an-tiquities at Vienna. 2. The expression, insistere rotis(Virg. Georg. in. 114.), literally tostand upon, or over, the wheels, isnot a merely poetical figure of speech,but a graphical description of the.
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