. 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. e-lane or back-street (angi-portus) in the same. Ter. Andr. 1. Hor. Ep. ii. 2. 71. Cses. B. 27. Hirt. B. Alex. 2. PLAUSTRARIUS (a^oirrjySs).A wagon maker or cartwright. Lam-prid. Alex. Sev. 24. 2. (a^a^vs.) A. wagoner. Ulp. 2. 27. and woodcut, s. PlaustrumMajus. PLAUSTRUM (afia^a). Awagon on
. 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. e-lane or back-street (angi-portus) in the same. Ter. Andr. 1. Hor. Ep. ii. 2. 71. Cses. B. 27. Hirt. B. Alex. 2. PLAUSTRARIUS (a^oirrjySs).A wagon maker or cartwright. Lam-prid. Alex. Sev. 24. 2. (a^a^vs.) A. wagoner. Ulp. 2. 27. and woodcut, s. PlaustrumMajus. PLAUSTRUM (afia^a). Awagon on two wheels usually drawnby oxen, and particularly employedin country occupations for the con-veyance of heavy loads and produceof every description. (Plaut. 5. 31.) Though we make use ofthe term wagon as the nearest cor-responding expression for the Romanplaustrum, that by no means suggestsa true notion of the actual object,which in reality consisted of nothingmore than a strong platform ofboards placed upon a pair of wheels,that were not radiated with spokes(radii), but formed out of a tambour-ine of solid wood (tympanum), fixedpermanently to the axle, so that thewhole, both wheels and axle, revolvedtogether ; and this explains why theplaustrum is usually spoken of as a. noisy and creaking cart (stridens,Virg. Georg. iii. 536. Ov. Trist. 59.) The load itself was merelyfastened upon this platform, when ofa nature to be so disposed; or wasincluded in a large basket (scirpea inplaustro. Ov. Fast vi. 680.), as inthe present example from a Romanbas-relief, when composed of manysmall articles which could not other-wise be held together; or, in othercases, a moveable rail was affixed tothe sides, which kept the load toge- 510 PLECTRUM. PLOSTELLUM. ther, without concealing it ; or, asVarro expresses it, left it open on all
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