. 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. ESSE nspnu (Vitruv. iv. 3. 5.), marked by shadingin the example, from an ancientDoric temple formerly existing inthe forum at Rome, as copied fromthe original by Labacco. CANALIS ((tw\w). An open. 106 C ANCELLARIUS. channel, artificially made, of wood orbrickwork, for the purpose of supply-ing cattle with wat
. 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. ESSE nspnu (Vitruv. iv. 3. 5.), marked by shadingin the example, from an ancientDoric temple formerly existing inthe forum at Rome, as copied fromthe original by Labacco. CANALIS ((tw\w). An open. 106 C ANCELLARIUS. channel, artificially made, of wood orbrickwork, for the purpose of supply-ing cattle with water in the meadows,and thus serving as a drinkingtrough, as seen in the illustrationfrom the Vatican Virgil. Virg. 330. Varro, R. R. iii. 5. 2. 5. 2. and 6. 1., where it is distin-guished from Tubus and Fistula. 2. Canalis in Foro. Probably thegutter or kennel, as we say, near thecentre of the Roman forum, fromwhich the rain waters were immedi-ately discharged through an opening jinto the Cloaca Maxima or main |sewer (Plaut. Cure. iv. 1. 15.);whence the word canalicola was in-vented as a nick-name for a lazy,idle fellow, because such people usedto loiter and lounge away their timeabout this spot. Festus, s. v. 3. A narrow alley or passage in atown. Liv. xxiii. 31. 4. A splint, employed by surgeonsin setting broken bones. Celsus,viii. 16. 5. In architecture, the channel inan Ionic capital, which is a smoothflat surface lying be- tween the abacus /fcmiyj|^^
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