A dictionary of Greek and Roman . also sculptured over the fountains, as among theGreeks; thus at Rome, there were the fountainsof Ganymede and Prometheus, and the Nymphaeumof Jupiter. (Stieglitz. Archdol. d. Baukunst, vol. 2. pp. 76, 79 ; Hirt, Lehre der Gebdude. pp. 399,403.) [P. S.] FORCEPS (irvpaypa), tongs or pincers, needno further explanation here, as they were used inantiquity for the same purposes as they are inmodern times. They were invented, as the ety-mology indicates, for taking hold of what is hot(foiTum, Festus, s. v. • Servius, ad Virg. 175, Aen.
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . also sculptured over the fountains, as among theGreeks; thus at Rome, there were the fountainsof Ganymede and Prometheus, and the Nymphaeumof Jupiter. (Stieglitz. Archdol. d. Baukunst, vol. 2. pp. 76, 79 ; Hirt, Lehre der Gebdude. pp. 399,403.) [P. S.] FORCEPS (irvpaypa), tongs or pincers, needno further explanation here, as they were used inantiquity for the same purposes as they are inmodern times. They were invented, as the ety-mology indicates, for taking hold of what is hot(foiTum, Festus, s. v. • Servius, ad Virg. 175, Aen. viii. 453, xii. 404), used by smiths,and therefore attributed to Vulcan and the Cy-clopes. (Virg. U. cc. ; Horn. E. xviii. 477, 434 ; Callim. in Del. 144 ; forcipe curva, Ovid,Met. xii. 277.) [Incus; Malleus.] FORES. [Jaxua.] FORFEX, dim. FORFICULA (if/aAk, dim. shears (Serv. in Virg. Aen. viii. 453),used, 1. in shearing sheep, as represented in theannexed woodcut, which is taken from a carnelian. in the Stosch collection of antique gems at Berlin ;2. in cutting hair (Eurip. Orest. 954 ; Schol. in Joe,Brunck, Anal. iii. 9 ; Virg. Catal. vii. 9 ; ferrobidenti, Ciris, 213); 3. in clipping hedges, myrtles,and other shrubs (ipaXicrTol fj-uppwaives, Hierocles,ap. Stob. Serm. 65.) In military manoeuvres the forfex was a tenaille,i. e. a body of troops arranged in the form of anacute angle, so as to receive and overcome the op-posite body, called a Cuneus. (Gel. x. 9 ; xvi. 11.) In architecture the term ifoXis denoted a con-struction which was probably the origin of the arch(Maccullochs West. Islands, i. p. 142, iii. p. 49),consisting of two stones leaning against each other so as to form an acute angle overhead, as is seenin the entrance to the pyramid of Cheops and inthe ruins of Mycenae ; and gradually brought nearerto the forms which we now employ. (See woodcut,p. 125.) (Plat. De Leg. xii. p. 292. ed. Bekker ;Diod. Sic. ii. 9.) [J. FORI. [Navis ; Circus, p
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