. 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. represents one of these cages, withthe chickens feeding, and the handleby which it was carried, from aRoman bas-relief. 4. Poetically, a bee-hive. iv. 58. See Alveare. 5. A conical frame of laths orwicker-work, made use of by fullers. and dyers for airing, drying, andbleaching cloth. (Apul. Met.
. 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. represents one of these cages, withthe chickens feeding, and the handleby which it was carried, from aRoman bas-relief. 4. Poetically, a bee-hive. iv. 58. See Alveare. 5. A conical frame of laths orwicker-work, made use of by fullers. and dyers for airing, drying, andbleaching cloth. (Apul. Met. 193.) Thisframe was placedover a fire-pan,or a pot with sul-phur kindled init, the use of whichis well known for bleaching, and thecloth was then spread over the frame,which confined the heat, and excludedthe air. The example here given isfrom a painting in the fullers estab-lishment (fullonica) at Pompeii. Inthe original, a man carries it on hishead, and the pot of sulphur in hishand; but it has been drawn herestanding on the ground, with thevessel of sulphur placed underneathit, precisely in the same way as it isnow commonly employed in Italy forairing clothes, in order to show moreclearly the mode of use. 6. A circular fence constructedround the stems of young trees topreserve them from being damagedby cattle. Columell. v. 6. 21. 7. That portion of the interior ofa theatre, or amphitheatre ( x. p. 227.), which contained theseats where the spectators sat, andwhich was formed by a number ofconcentric tiers o
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