. 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. of the female figures in the followingpage ; but more commonly truncated. represents Cupid preparing a foot-bath for Adonis, who, in the originalcomposition, is sitting in front of thevessel ; and a bas-relief in Winkel-mann (Mon. Ined. No. 161.) exhibitsthe old nurse washing the feet ofUlysses in a vessel 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. of the female figures in the followingpage ; but more commonly truncated. represents Cupid preparing a foot-bath for Adonis, who, in the originalcomposition, is sitting in front of thevessel ; and a bas-relief in Winkel-mann (Mon. Ined. No. 161.) exhibitsthe old nurse washing the feet ofUlysses in a vessel of similar formand character. PELTA (TreATT?). A small andlight shield made of the same mate-rials as the cetra (Liv. xxviii. 5.);viz. wood or wicker-work coveredwith leather, but without any metallicrim. In shape it was sometimes el-liptic, like the example borne by one
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