. 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. was burned (Virg. Mn. vi. 177. iii. 13. 21.), so termed becauseit was built up of logs of wood in asquare form, like an altar. The il- lustration is from a bas-relief repre-senting the story of the Iliad, supposedto have been executed in the age ofNero, and represents the burning ofPatroclus. ARACHN
. 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. was burned (Virg. Mn. vi. 177. iii. 13. 21.), so termed becauseit was built up of logs of wood in asquare form, like an altar. The il- lustration is from a bas-relief repre-senting the story of the Iliad, supposedto have been executed in the age ofNero, and represents the burning ofPatroclus. ARACHNE. A particular kindof sun-dial, which is naturally be-lieved to have received its name froma resemblance to the spiders webproduced by the hour lines inter-secting the circles of the equator andtropics, described upon it ; but ofwhich no ancient specimen has beendiscovered. Vitruv. ix. 8. AR^OSTYLOS (apuoariXos).Arceostyle; applied to a building orcolonnade in which thecolumns are situated atwide intervals, of notless than 3\ or 4 of theirown diameters apartfrom each other ; as inthe lowest line of the an-nexed diagram, which shows the re-lative width of the five different kindsof intercolumniations adopted by theancients. The arseostyle construc-tion was particularly employed in
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