. 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. edby the annexed example, from anImperial medal (Scheff. I c. p. 111.),in which the central portion, not oc-cupied by rowers, forms the deckalluded to. HEMISPHJERIUM. One of themany kinds of sundials in use amongstthe ancients (Vi-truv. ix. 8.), whichreceived the namefrom its resemb-lance to a hemi-sphere, or
. 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. edby the annexed example, from anImperial medal (Scheff. I c. p. 111.),in which the central portion, not oc-cupied by rowers, forms the deckalluded to. HEMISPHJERIUM. One of themany kinds of sundials in use amongstthe ancients (Vi-truv. ix. 8.), whichreceived the namefrom its resemb-lance to a hemi-sphere, or half ofthe globe supposedto be cut throughits centre in theplane of one ofits greatest illustrationrepresents a statueof Atlas, former-ly standing in thecentre of Ravenna (Symeoni, Epitaffiantichi, Lione, 1557), which affordsan appropriate design for a dial ofthis description ; and indicates thatthe hemisphcerium was erected in anupright position, whereas the discus,which was also circular, was laid flatupon its stand : thus constituting thedifference between the two. 2. The interior of a dome ; i. ceiling formed by it, which, infact, consists of the half of a hollowglobe ; such, for instance, as the Pan-theon at Rome. Vitruv. v. 10. 5. HEPTERIS (Ittt^s). A war-. 334 HERMiE. HEROUM. galley with seven banks of oars. ( 23.) See the article Hexeres, Iwhere the method of arranging the Ioars and counting the banks, whenthey exceeded a certain number, ispartially explained ; and if the planthere supposed be adopted, the ad- \dition of one oar-port to each tier jbetween stem and stern, will make |the rating of seven banks instead ofsix; which banks will be disposed inthe manner shown by the following \ HERMiE (Ep/xat). Mercuries; aparticular kind of statues, in whichonly the head, and sometimes thebust, was modelled, all therest being left as a plain four-cornered post; a customwhich descended from the oldPelasgic style of representingthe god Mercury. (Ma
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