. 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. rding to theScholiasts on Horace, an earthenwarecalix employed by the pontifices andVestals in their sacrificial rites; butcommonly used in a general sensefor any kind of drinking-cup Porphyr. ad Hor. Od. i. 31. A. P. 434. CUMERA. A sort of tub, pan,or basket with a convex lid, used bythe co
. 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. rding to theScholiasts on Horace, an earthenwarecalix employed by the pontifices andVestals in their sacrificial rites; butcommonly used in a general sensefor any kind of drinking-cup Porphyr. ad Hor. Od. i. 31. A. P. 434. CUMERA. A sort of tub, pan,or basket with a convex lid, used bythe country people for keeping cornin. Festus, s. Cumerum. Hor Sat. 53. Id. Epist. i. 7. 30. Acron. ad 11. CUMERUM. A covered vase,or, perhaps, basket, carried by thecamillus in a marriage procession(Varro, L. L. vii. 34.), and contain-ing the necessaries (utensilia) of thebride. Festus, s. v. CUNABULA. A childs cradle.(Cic. Div i. 36. Plaut. Amph. v. Serv. ad Virg. Eel. iv. 23. Ar-nob. adv. Gent iv.) The example isfrom a very ancient MS. of Gene-sis, published by^Lambeccius ( Com-ment Bibl. 29.); but an-^cient cradles werealso commonly made in the shape ofa trough or boat, as in the next illus-tration ; whence a Greek name forthe same is o-Kdcprj. A then. xiii. 226 CUN^E. CCJNICULTJS. 2. Hence the place in which anyliving thing is born: a birth-place(Prop. iii. 1. 27.) ; a birds nest(Plin. H. N. x. 51.); a Georg. iv. 66 CUNiE. Same as Div. i. 36. CUNARIA. A nurse, whorocked an infant in its cradle, washedit at its birth, wrapped it in swaddlingclothes, &c. (Inscript. ap. 7. Compare Mart. Ep. xi. 39.)
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