. 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. but small diameter, so that it presentedthe appearance of a tall and narrowvessel. (Pallad. v. altum et angustum.)It was commonly usedin heating water forthe baths (Pallad. 3.), as well as fordomestic purposes(Senec. iii. 24.);and, consequently, was ^made of various di-mensions. ( N. i
. 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. but small diameter, so that it presentedthe appearance of a tall and narrowvessel. (Pallad. v. altum et angustum.)It was commonly usedin heating water forthe baths (Pallad. 3.), as well as fordomestic purposes(Senec. iii. 24.);and, consequently, was ^made of various di-mensions. ( N. iv. 9.) The illustration, whichcorresponds exactly with the abovedescription, represents a miliarium,formerly used in the baths of Pom-peii, restored according to the im-pression which it has left in themortar of the wall against which itwas set; the square aperture under-neath is the mouth of the furnace,actually existing, over which it wasplaced. 2. A short thick column, which rosefrom the centre of the basin (morta-rium) in a mill for bruising olives(trapetum, Cato, JR. R. xx. 1. 1.) It is marked on the. annexed section and elevation of anoriginal olive-mill, found at object of it was to support thesquare box (cupa, 5.), into which oneextremity of each axle, on which thewheels (prbes, ) revolved, wasinserted ; so that when the wheelswere driven round the basin (1. 1), itconstituted the pivot upon which theyand their axles turned. MILLIARIUM. A mile-stone;which the Romans placed along thesides of their principal roads, in thesame manner as we do, with therespective distances from the city MILLIARIUM. M1MUS. 423
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